Prison guard
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.
"And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco."
- 2 someone who guards prisoners wordnet
Example
More examples"And Tietelbaum has been bought and sold so many times by the dark Republican powers that be, look at the prisonguard beating trial and the Ventura County sewer fiasco."
Etymology
From prison + guard.