advance guard
Noun
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Noun
advance guard (plural advance guards)
- A unit or units leading the way of advancing or marching troops, guarding them from ambushes, reconnoitering and pursuing the enemy, etc.
- An individual soldier in the same role.
- French: avant-garde
- German: Vorhut
- Portuguese: guarda avançada
- Russian: аванга́рд
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