0 the part of an army or navy that leads an attack on an enemy
1 the front part of a group of people who are moving forward, esp. an army
The mobilized vanguard saw its role as class organising and agitation.
Those in the vanguard of this industrial growth grew in wealth and status.
Within this carefully defined environment, community organizations were the vanguard of political activism encompassing, among many others, social movements to protect patients' rights.
In anaphoric contexts, women were on the vanguard of the slow long-term development, as they led the stronger tendency toward the plural variant.
Medical ethicists belong in the vanguard of the struggle to reclaim the moral high ground for a profession in danger of losing its moorings.
This put him in the vanguard of the new theor y of education and upbr inging.
Why put such terms as "culture shock" (p. 88), "vanguard" (p. 91) and "bread and butter" (p. 99) in quotation marks?
There was a capitalist vanguard and there were missionaries of capitalism.
