Usually means: Frontline troops leading a military advance.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. advance guard: Merriam-Webster
  2. advance guard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. advance guard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. advance guard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. advance-guard: Wordnik
  6. advance-guard, advance guard: Wiktionary
  7. advance guard: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. advance guard: Dictionary.com
  9. advance guard: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. advance guard: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. advance guard: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. advance guard: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (advance guard)

noun:  A unit or units leading the way of advancing or marching troops, guarding them from ambushes, reconnoitering and pursuing the enemy, etc.
noun:  An individual soldier in the same role.

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