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. Le Hong Hiep:

   Le Duan was a hardcore communist, an old guard of the Leninist political and economic system, after his demise, no single politician could command such a level of control. Instead, the politburo took over and became the most important decision maker, albeit on a consensus basis.

2. John Patrick Lee:

   I don’t think this is a fad, it is a generational shift in how people think about investing their money, a retail trader will not lean on Wall Street to manage their money and I definitely now see an antagonistic relationship between the old guard (Wall Street) and individual traders who are on the rise.

3. 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.

4. Mikhail Zygar:

   Even now, he is replacing his old guard with new people, younger technocrats in their 40s, children of his old friends, so he is surrounded by 'nephews,' he is scared he could be murdered like Gadhafi. This is why he prefers to do anything to preserve power, so there are no limits, but to remain in power.

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.