0 present participle of guard
1 to protect someone or something from being attacked or stolen:
2 to keep information secret:
Journalists jealously (= carefully) guard their sources of information.
Armed security officers are employed to guard the president.
The police officers guarding the door let in the celebrities, but they prevented us lesser/mere mortals from going inside.
He was obsessed with posterity's verdict, with guarding and protecting his reputation.
Men are managers of the public sphere, directing and performing those activities and guarding those spaces that affect the wellbeing of corporate groups.
All of these avenues of research will reveal the importance of guarding against simple equations between knowledge and colonial power.
