a person or a group of people who are employed to protect somebodyThe President’s bodyguard is/are armed.Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivearmed,personalverb + bodyguardhave,keep,hire,…bodyguard + verbprotect somebodyprepositionbodyguard toSeefull entryExtra examplesHe never goes anywhere without his personal bodyguards.She has to have an armed bodyguard wherever she goes.a former bodyguard to the princeA personal bodyguard was assigned to her and is with her day and night.
See bodyguard in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
