As nouns the difference between terms and garda
is that terms is while garda is guard.
terms
English
Noun
(head)
Statistics
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garda
English
Noun
(gardai)
(Ireland) A member of the Irish national police force, the .
* {{quote-book, 2004, (Ken Bruen), The Guards citation
, passage=A garda was ambling towards us.}}
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