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COASTGUARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("coastguard" is a kind of...):
armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)
Meronyms (members of "coastguard"):
coastguardsman (a member of a coastguard)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coastguard"):
U. S. Coast Guard; United States Coast Guard; US Coast Guard (an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce)
