security guard (plural security guards)
- A person who is employed to provide security for people or property.
2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic[1], Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.
person employed to provide security
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: segurtasun-zaintzaile
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: vigilant de seguretat m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 警衛/警卫 (zh) (jǐngwèi), 保安員/保安员 (bǎo'ānyuán)
- Danish: sikkerhedsvagt c, sikkerhedsfolk pl, (plural)
- Dutch: bewaker (nl) m
- Finnish: järjestyksenvalvoja (fi) (security for people in general), vartija (fi) (security for property or enumerated persons)
- French: agent de sécurité m
- Galician: vixilante de seguridade m or f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Sicherheitsbeamter m, Sicherheitsbediensteter m, Sicherheitsmann m
- Greek: φύλακας ασφαλείας m or f (fýlakas asfaleías), φύλακας (el) m or f (fýlakas)
- Indonesian: penjaga keamanan, satpam (id)
- Irish: garda slándála m
- Italian: guardia giurata m or f
- Japanese: ガードマン (ja) (gādoman), 警備員 (ja) (けいびいん, keibiin)
- Khmer: អ្នកយាមសន្តិសុខ (ʼnâkâyéamsântĕsŏkh)
- Korean: 경비원 (ko) (gyeongbiwon)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: pengawal keselamatan
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sikkerhetsvakt m or f
- Nynorsk: sikkerheitsvakt f
- Polish: ochroniarz (pl) m, ochrona (pl) f
- Portuguese: vigilante de segurança m or f
- Romanian: agent de securitate m, pază (ro) f
- Russian: охра́нник (ru) m (oxránnik)
- Spanish: vigilante de seguridad (es) m or f, guardia de seguridad (es) m or f, vigilante jurado m or f (Spain), segurata (es) m or f (Spain, colloquial)
- Swedish: säkerhetsvakt c, ordningsvakt (sv) c
- Tagalog: guwardiya, sikyu (slang)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: güvenlik bekçisi
- Vietnamese: cảnh vệ (vi)
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