home guard
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n.
A volunteer force formed to defend a homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere
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Home Guard or Home Army may refer to:
Military
- British Home Guard
- Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse, KdA)
- Confederate Home Guard, during the American Civil War
- Croatian Home Guard and Imperial Croatian Home Guard
- Danish Home Guard
- Home Guard (Unionist), during the American Civil War
- Indian Home Guard
- Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force (1944)
- Militia
- National Guard of the United States
- Norwegian Home Guard
- Polish Home Army or Armia Krajowa
- Sri Lankan Home Guard
- State Defense Forces
- Swedish Home Guard
- Territorial Army, British reserve forces
- Ulster Defence Volunteers
- Volkssturm, German Home Guard (Second World War)
- Volunteer Defence Corps
- Volunteer Fighting Corps - Japan (Second World War)
Other
- The Old Home Guard, a song in the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Home Guard (Shannara), in Terry Brooks' novel series
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