security guard

English

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Noun

security guard (plural security guards)

1. A person who is employed to provide security for people or property.

   Synonym: security officer

   Coordinate terms: rent-a-cop, watchman, watchperson

   • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:

     Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.

Translations

person employed to provide security

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: segurtasun-zaintzaile
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: vigilant de seguretat m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 警衛 / 警卫 (zh) (jǐngwèi), 保安員 / 保安员 (bǎo'ānyuán)

• Danish: sikkerhedsvagt c, sikkerhedsfolk pl, (plural)
• Dutch: bewaker (nl) m
• Finnish: järjestyksenvalvoja (fi) (security for people in general), vartija (fi) (security for property or enumerated persons)
• French: agent de sécurité (fr) m
• Galician: vixilante de seguridade m or f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Sicherheitsbeamter m, Sicherheitsbediensteter m, Sicherheitsmann m
• Greek: φύλακας ασφαλείας m or f (fýlakas asfaleías), φύλακας (el) m or f (fýlakas)
• Indonesian: penjaga keamanan, satpam (id)
• Irish: garda slándála m
• Italian: guardia giurata m or f
• Japanese: ガードマン (ja) (gādoman), 警備員 (ja) (けいびいん, keibiin)
• Khmer: អ្នកយាមសន្តិសុខ (ʼnâkâyéamsântĕsŏkh)
• Korean: 경비원 (ko) (gyeongbiwon)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: pengawal keselamatan
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sikkerhetsvakt m or f

  Nynorsk: sikkerheitsvakt f

• Polish: ochroniarz (pl) m, ochrona (pl) f
• Portuguese: vigilante de segurança m or f
• Romanian: agent de securitate m, pază (ro) f
• Russian: охра́нник (ru) m (oxránnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: zaštitar m
• Spanish: vigilante de seguridad (es) m or f, guardia de seguridad m or f, vigilante jurado m or f (Spain), segurata (es) m or f (Spain, colloquial), wáchiman m or f (Guatemala), wachiman m or f (Latin America), wachimán m or f (Latin America), guachimán (es) m or f (Latin America), guachi (es) m or f (Latin America), guáchiman m or f (Puerto Rico), guachimango m or f (El Salvador), watchman m or f (wachman, Americas), huachimán m or f (Latin America)
• Swedish: säkerhetsvakt (sv) c, ordningsvakt (sv) c
• Tagalog: guwardiya, sikyu (slang)
• Thai: เจ้าหน้าที่รักษาความปลอดภัย, รปภ., ยาม (th) (yaam)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: güvenlik bekçisi
• Vietnamese: cảnh vệ (vi)

See also

• security guard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia