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| Shopping | The largest selection of DEFENSE products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | dihfeh'ns |
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| Rhymes | commence, commonsense, condense, and 19 more rhymes in ehns... |
| Meaning | (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring. |
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| Examples | "his teams are always good on defense" |
| Synonyms | defence, defending team |
| Contrary | offense, offence |
| Category | sport, athletics |
| Broader | team, squad |
| Meaning | Military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies. |
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| Examples | "they died in the defense of Stalingrad"; "they were developed for the defense program" |
| Synonyms | defence, defensive measure |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| Broader | military action, action |
| Narrower | umbrella; air defense; stand; hasty defense, hasty defence; deliberate defense, deliberate defence; biological defense, biological defence, biodefense, biodefence; chemical defense, chemical defence; mining, minelaying; biological warfare defense, biological warfare defence, BW defense, BW defence |
| Meaning | The defendant and his legal advisors collectively. |
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| Examples | "the defense called for a mistrial" |
| Synonyms | defence, defense team, defense lawyers |
| Contrary | prosecution |
| Broader | collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage |
| Meaning | Protection from harm. |
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| Examples | "sanitation is the best defense against disease" |
| Synonyms | defence |
| Broader | protection |
| Meaning | A structure used to defend against attack. |
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| Examples | "the artillery battered down the defenses" |
| Synonyms | defensive structure, defence |
| Broader | structure, construction |
| Narrower | cheval-de-frise, chevaux-de-frise; fortification, munition; fortress, fort; line of defense, line of defence; outwork; stronghold, fastness |
| Meaning | The speech act of answering an attack on your assertions. |
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| Examples | "in defense he said the other man started it" |
| Synonyms | refutation, defence |
| Broader | answer |
| Narrower | confutation; rebuttal |
| Meaning | The justification for some act or belief. |
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| Examples | "he offered a persuasive defense of the theory" |
| Synonyms | defence, vindication |
| Broader | justification |
| Narrower | apology, apologia; alibi; excuse, alibi, exculpation, self-justification |
| Meaning | A defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him. |
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| Examples | "he gave evidence for the defense" |
| Synonyms | defence, denial, demurrer |
| Contrary | prosecution, criminal prosecution |
| Part of | trial |
| Category | law, jurisprudence |
| Broader | due process, due process of law |
| Narrower | entrapment |
| Meaning | An organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack. |
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| Examples | "he joined the defense against invasion" |
| Synonyms | defence, defense force, defence force |
| Broader | organization, organisation |
| Narrower | bastion |
| Meaning | The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States. Created in 1947. |
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| Synonyms | Department of Defense, Defense Department, United States Department of Defense, DoD |
| Parts | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA; Department of Defense Laboratory System, LABLINK; United States Navy, US Navy, USN, Navy; United States Air Force, U. S. Air Force, US Air Force, Air Force, USAF; Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA; Defense Logistics Agency; Defense Technical Information Center, DTIC; National Reconnaissance Office, NRO; National Security Agency, NSA; United States Army, US Army, U. S. Army, Army, USA; Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, BMDO; Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA; National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA; Casualty Care Research Center, CCRC |
| Broader | executive department |
| Meaning | (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires. |
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| Synonyms | defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defence |
| Category | psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine |
| Broader | process, unconscious process; psychoanalytic process |
| Narrower | compensation; conversion; denial; displacement; idealization, idealisation; intellectualization, intellectualisation; isolation; projection; rationalization, rationalisation; reaction formation; regression; repression |
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