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defence force

n. an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack; "he joined the defense against invasion" [syn: defense, defence, defense force]

Usage examples of "defence force".

Also, and most important, does it not strike you, gentlemen, as odd that even though the attacking group retreated within the sound of Defence Force helicopters, none of them was tracked down.

A special post as co-ordinating head of the Chiefs of Staff Committee is being created for Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Dickson, and the merging of all three Services into one Defence Force has been openly canvassed.

Not the High Earl in his hall, nor the surly temper of Corley's first-in-command, nor a single man of Cliffhaven's defence force remained.

With the help of demolition experts from the South African Defence Force, we detonated them on ranges just outside Johannesburg, making some huge explosions.

It will take an order from the chief of the defence force and the minister before they'll send up a fighter or a helicopter gunship.

When the leaders arrived for this interview, they were arrested on orders of Manfred De La Rey, the minister of police, and because police reserves had by this time been stretched almost to breaking point, soldiers and sailors of the defence force were rushed in to supplement the local police units and within three days the black townships were cordoned off securely.

The War Office was calling for volunteers for a new Home Defence Force to deal with enemy parachute-landings and was preparing to resist a full-scale invasion—.

And would meet the menace with a fully developed, renewable air defence force, He hoped.

The Brigadier in command of the Caribbean Defence Force was a modern young soldier of thirty-five.

There was the garage, the apprentices, the house near the old Botswana Defence Force Club, and the children.

Kruis boasted a governor, and some form of defence force to protect the island from attack and to make sure that the mixed population of Dutch overseers and imported slaves could carry on their affairs without interference.