The task of keeping watch over someone or something or of controlling access to a place.
a trio of conscripts were slouching about on guard duty
Example sentencesExamples
- Guard duty would be an appropriate task for a short-term enlistee.
- The obligation of the local inhabitants to stand guard duty was a matter for dispute.
- Its garrison was so understaffed that members of the band and the headquarters staff had to take turns on guard duty.
- He would probably have to do double guard duty to get his questions answered.
- Courts-martial records show that soldiers showed up for drill drunk or missed guard duty.
- The men are assigned guard duty in an abandoned village.
- Eight more units were sent over, but these were woefully under-equipped and most of them had never done more than guard duties.
- I really don't have to worry about her 'running off', as she takes her guard duty very seriously.
- The Shar Pei also served spiritual guard duty—its blue-black tongue was thought to ward off evil spirits.
- Men assigned to guard duty assemble in front of their respective barracks.