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rearguardrear‧guard /ˈrɪəɡɑːd $ ˈrɪrɡɑːrd/ noun   rearguardOrigin: 1400-1500 Old French reregarde, from rere ‘behind’ (from Latin retro-) + garde ‘guard’ - From an Arsenal rearguard action the ball would, seemingly inevitably, reach Alex.
- Let us try a rearguard action to confine its scope to peripheral cases.
- Oldham's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding.
- On machines however, a tough rearguard action was fought by the employers.
- The best that propaganda could do was to emphasise the courage of Leonidas and his rearguard.
- The troops remaining in the islands fought a bitter rearguard action.
- They arrived too late to save Praag but did destroy part of the Chaos army's rearguard.
- With their captain and inspiration, Roy Aitken, suspended, Saints seemed to have come prepared to fight a rearguard action.
NOUN► action· Each manoeuvre in their rearguard action has taken them further away from intuitive notions about that exciting enterprise referred to as science.· Let us try a rearguard action to confine its scope to peripheral cases.· With their captain and inspiration, Roy Aitken, suspended, Saints seemed to have come prepared to fight a rearguard action.· The troops remaining in the islands fought a bitter rearguard action.· On machines however, a tough rearguard action was fought by the employers.· From an Arsenal rearguard action the ball would, seemingly inevitably, reach Alex.· Sefton were left to fight a valiant rearguard action after losing half their batting cheaply.· Such men found themselves, however, fighting what became all too clearly a rearguard action. VERB► fight· With their captain and inspiration, Roy Aitken, suspended, Saints seemed to have come prepared to fight a rearguard action.· They are now fighting a rearguard battle and losing.· Sefton were left to fight a valiant rearguard action after losing half their batting cheaply. ► fight a rearguard action- A rearguard action is being fought against the sale of the land for business development.
- With their captain and inspiration, Roy Aitken, suspended, Saints seemed to have come prepared to fight a rearguard action.
1fight a rearguard action a)to make a determined effort to prevent a change that you think is bad, although it seems too late to stop it:  They have been fighting a rearguard action to stop a supermarket being built on the land. b)if an army fights a rearguard action, it defends itself at the back against an enemy that is chasing it2[singular] the group of soldiers who defend the back of an army against an enemy that is chasing it |