coastguard

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A form of coast guard — The organisation or officer enforcing maritime law and policing the seas within territorial waters.

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Meanings

nouncoastguard (plural coastguards)

plural coastguards

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of coast guard.

    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.

    2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025

Origin

From coast + guard.

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APA

coastguard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coastguard

MLA

“coastguard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coastguard. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coastguard,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coastguard.

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