defense
/dɪˈfɛns/ noun B1- The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
- A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
- The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
- An argument in support or justification of something. · to come to someone's defense
- The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.
- The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case.
- Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military. · Department of Defense
Plural defenses
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Then Kaa opened his mouth for the first time and spoke one long hissing word, and the far-away monkeys, hurrying to the defense of the Cold Lairs, stayed where they were, cowering, till the loaded branches bent and crackled under them.
A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother!
A Carpenter, with equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of defense.
So had the Quarter Sessions, at which he was acquitted as having acted in self-defense.
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