coastguard en · NOUN
Etymology
From coast + guard.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of coast guard.
alt of coast guard
More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying and equipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.
2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| coastguards | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
coastguardman · coastguarding · coastguardsman · coastguardswoman