coastguard

English

Etymology

From coast +‎ guard.

Noun

coastguard (plural coastguards)

  1. Alternative spelling of coast guard.
    • 2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph‎[1], archived from the original on 8 July 2025:
      More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying and equipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.

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