Synonyms for old guard
old guard

Princeton's WordNet

1. old guardnoun

   a faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas

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1. • Faction

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1. Robert Sears:

   A lot of the old guard performers did well again and most macro managers have ended with a good year, even the ones that didn’t do quite so well earlier in the year have done well in the later year rally.

2. Eddy Arriola:

   The old guard still wants heads on the block and Marines on the beach, but they don't seem to have realized that the world had changed, the PACs are raising peanuts compared to the business interests that are lining up.

3. Sam Clovis:

   I've gotten to know a lot of great Republicans along the way. Most of them really wanted to help change things, but there was one big hangup in the end: they were all part of the old guard and they don't want things to change, we need a real change. I've gotten to know Donald Trump and was so impressed I wanted to be part of this historic effort.

4. Carlos Saladrigas:

   If President Miguel Diaz-Canel is given the post of party secretary, it would strengthen his ability to take decisions and it might augur well for more expansive reforms, if, however, someone else is appointed, especially from the ‘old guard’, it would possibly indicate... continuing economic stagnation.

5. Kevin McCarthy:

   The public value of being able to see the human interactions in frustration, in warmth, in all of those things far outweighs the risk that people will play to the cameras. I mean, we have that during debate one way or the other, i think some of the old guard in Congress opposes this because they want to continue to maintain the fiction that when four or five people are on the floor spending millions of dollars, that that is actually the action of the whole legislative body when the reality is far different.