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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
defense
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
criminal
▪ Keanu Reeves plays a criminal defense attorney who has an uncanny knack for picking sympathetic jurors.
▪ They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.
▪ More particularly, he is an experienced criminal defense lawyer and knows how circumscribed our talks would necessarily have to be.
▪ That is a sentiment echoed by criminal defense lawyer William Habern of Riverside, who specializes in state and federal parole cases.
good
▪ Most of the time, this is the best defense.
▪ The military had placed the island city in the best possible defense posture, considering the inherent weakness of its geographic position.
▪ Talking about Buffalo-Pittsburgh, Parcells thinks that whichever team plays the best defense will survive.
▪ There is a price tag on the best defense.
▪ Insinuation was their best defense, their best offense.
▪ The best defense is a good offense, Jody figures.
▪ Its honor at stake, the Pac-10 could not have selected a better last defense.
▪ The one that plays better defense will win.
legal
▪ There were calls for legal defense funds and vigils for justice.
▪ Zimmermann spent thousands on his defense, and was forced to set up a legal defense fund to cover the expenses.
▪ Contract attorneys have pushed the deficit in the county's indigent legal defense offices to more than $ 1.8 million.
national
▪ The proposed test program is inadequate to ensure the necessary reliability before we begin to spend big money on national missile defense.
▪ It was not on a similar list last year, and Marine Corps officials say it is vital to national defense.
▪ Similarly in the international arena, an emasculated politics is incapable of sustaining an effective national defense.
▪ As with the national budget, defense takes a big chunk out of our software spending.
▪ He presented James Kitfield, a military reporter for the National Journal, with the prize for distinguished reporting on national defense.
■ NOUN
agency
▪ The Reform commission soon became the most militant of all the defense agencies.
▪ The defense agencies had learned to recruit wealthy federation donors to their own boards.
▪ Donations poured into the Big Three defense agencies, and their budgets and staffs soared.
attorney
▪ Even the defense attorneys who went up against him said as much.
▪ They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.
▪ Keanu Reeves plays a criminal defense attorney who has an uncanny knack for picking sympathetic jurors.
▪ It takes between 10 and 15 years to exhaust all appeals, and lack of defense attorneys can mean a two-year delay.
▪ Morgan is a well-known defense attorney.
▪ Looking relaxed and rested, Simpson answered friendly questions from his defense attorney for nearly three hours.
▪ The defense attorney, in the midst of arguing his motion, suddenly began gagging an coughing.
▪ Goldston told jailers he was doing so because he wanted cigarettes, magazines and Los Angeles defense attorney Johnnie Cochran.
budget
▪ The annual defense budget stands at about $ 7 billion-40 times smaller than U.S. expenditures.
▪ After two years in office they had increased the defense budget from $ 40 to $ 46 billion.
▪ Such operations have expanded substantially in recent years but they still add less than 2 percent to our defense budget.
▪ A local congressman said the canceled deployment illustrated that too much money has been cut from the defense budget.
▪ President Clinton signed the bill into law as part of a defense budget measure.
▪ In the Far East, defense budgets are growing very rapidly.
company
▪ To produce 438 more, Augustine and other defense companies want $ 64. 4 billion.
▪ He puts it this way: Every defense company figures a certain amount of overhead into every contract.
▪ So what did Ziniewicz, 53, who works for a local defense company, do last month?
contractor
▪ In addition to the Navy and civilian employees, dozens of defense contractors have relocated or beefed up local offices.
▪ Gary was an electrical engineer for a defense contractor in the Washington area.
▪ One benefit, he said, is the closer working relationship between defense contractors and the Navy.
▪ It cost government and defense contractors $ 5. 6 billion in 1995 to protect classified national security information.
▪ Many members of Congress of both parties serve districts harboring big defense contractors that would be affected.
industry
▪ Anders says his bold actions awakened the rest of the defense industry.
▪ His latest budget that he has submitted for the California defense industry is a disaster.
▪ Perry has a long and great history with the defense industry.
▪ Twenty-two months later, all of its available power was being used and the defense industries were screaming for more.
▪ Cohen also raised questions about the benefits of defense industry mergers, including government-financed merger expenses.
lawyer
▪ Jeffery J.. Carlson, a Santa Monica defense lawyer offered a similar critique.
▪ Ruth Halpern, who had just been brainstorming about the idea with a death-penalty defense lawyer, was intrigued.
▪ Instead of freely submitting to police interviews, they hired a pair of Denver defense lawyers, one for each of them.
▪ Fujisaki will probably rule next week on whether defense lawyers can draw a more sinister inference from the delay during closing arguments.
▪ The prosecutors and defense lawyers regarded Kovitsky as a holy terror.
▪ This was how he negotiated with defense lawyers.
▪ A good defense lawyer has an intricate network.
minister
▪ Peres was named prime minister, his deputy Yitzhak Rabin became defense minister, and Shamir became foreign minister.
ministry
▪ Labor will control the foreign and defense ministries, along with several other cabinet posts.
missile
▪ The principal goal of administration policy has been to persuade others to endorse missile defense.
▪ Republicans will point to the failure as proof of the administration's lukewarm commitment to missile defense during the past seven years.
▪ Opponents of missile defense will cite the miss as proof that politics has been driving the development schedule.
▪ The proposed test program is inadequate to ensure the necessary reliability before we begin to spend big money on national missile defense.
▪ Dole already has used legislative issues such as gun control and strategic missile defense to score political points.
▪ When that happens, it will be too late to start building a missile defense.
▪ It will require more, but missile defense will be a cornerstone.
▪ Now, the Pentagon may cast Aegis ships as part of a ballistic missile defense network favored by Cohen.
official
▪ This means future defense procurement contracts would cost the government less money, defense officials say.
▪ The secret program was largely dismantled in the early 1990s, defense officials say.
▪ But a defensive capacity was retained to test the effectiveness of protective gear used by the armed forces, defense officials say.
▪ It is too early to say exactly how many job cuts each agency would absorb, defense officials said.
secretary
▪ Absent was the fumbling that has accompanied previous Clinton appointments, from attorney-general to defense secretary and surgeon-general.
▪ John Tower, R-Texas, as defense secretary.
▪ Cohen made his comments during his first news conference since becoming defense secretary.
▪ Henry H.. Shelton expressed concern last week to Rumsfeld about the defense secretary s review of the military.
▪ The incoming defense secretary, with Army Gen.
▪ He expected more loyalty, he told his defense secretary heatedly.
system
▪ Defense ministers from the group also issued a joint statement against U.S. plans to create a missile defense system.
▪ A science-fiction thriller about a planet that is mired in civil war and whose computerized defense system runs amok, threatening everyone.
▪ Boeing's proposals illustrate the difficulty in coming up with a missile defense system any time soon.
▪ Your immune sys-tem can be likened to a Patriot missile defense system, detecting incoming dangers and destroying them.
▪ From what we know, the proposed defense system can defeat only the dumbest decoys.
▪ Dole repeated his support for the development of a national anti-missile defense system by 2003.
team
▪ Neither the prosecution nor the defense team could be reached for comment late Friday regarding the development.
▪ Those feelings were reinforced by news reports saying McVeigh confessed to the bombing during interviews with his defense team.
▪ A source close to the defense team said the no contest plea was a key element in plea bargain negotiations.
▪ The defense team was delighted by the development.
▪ Denvir said neither the defense team nor the defense strategy had not yet been determined.
▪ And the defense team, slogging through hour after hour of technical material, grew increasingly annoyed.
▪ He smiled often and passed notes to members of the defense team.
▪ But it could have strategic value for a defense team facing the biggest case filed against an Aberdeen soldier to date.
■ VERB
play
▪ In those days, even quarterbacks played defense.
▪ After two days of intensive defensive-oriented workouts, the Celtics came out Wednesday night and again played appalling defense.
▪ Dallas Stymies Kings, 5-1 Hockey: Stars play a miserly defense and score four times on power play and once short-handed.
▪ Blue said the team is exciting to watch, in part, because they play man-to-man defense.
▪ He picked up 73 yards on 14 rushes before injuring a knee while playing defense in the third quarter.
▪ Tampa Bay plays stout defense... the Bucs thirsted for a victory.
▪ For every breakaway, or thrown pass, there is some one willing to hustle down court to play defense.
▪ So Vince Carter dug down and played defense to block Duncan's last shot.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Martin decided to speak in his own defense.
▪ Taylor plays defense for the New York Giants.
▪ the Department of Defense
▪ There are plans to increase defense spending by 6%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each clinic defense required extensive planning.
▪ Gary was an electrical engineer for a defense contractor in the Washington area.
▪ Jeffery J.. Carlson, a Santa Monica defense lawyer offered a similar critique.
▪ The defense contends the fight was an isolated case.
▪ The defense for this kind of programing proceeds along the following lines.
▪ The Saints had 213 total yards against a Raider defense ranked last in rushing, passing and overall defense.
▪ The tragedy is that you have to twist the knife in your own gray matter to make this defense work.
▪ They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each clinic defense required extensive planning.
▪ Gary was an electrical engineer for a defense contractor in the Washington area.
▪ Jeffery J.. Carlson, a Santa Monica defense lawyer offered a similar critique.
▪ The defense contends the fight was an isolated case.
▪ The defense for this kind of programing proceeds along the following lines.
▪ The Saints had 213 total yards against a Raider defense ranked last in rushing, passing and overall defense.
▪ The tragedy is that you have to twist the knife in your own gray matter to make this defense work.
▪ They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defense

Defense \De*fense"\, Defence \De*fence"\, n. [F. d['e]fense, OF. defense, fem., defens, masc., fr. L. defensa (cf. LL. defensum), from defendere. See Defend, and cf. Fence.]

  1. The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.

    In cases of defense 't is best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems.
    --Shak.

  2. That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection.

    War would arise in defense of the right.
    --Tennyson.

    God, the widow's champion and defense.
    --Shak.

  3. Protecting plea; vindication; justification.

    Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense.
    --Acts xxii. 1.

  4. (Law) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.

  5. Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.

    A man of great defense.
    --Spenser.

    By how much defense is better than no skill.
    --Shak.

  6. Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance. [Obs.]

    Severe defenses . . . against wearing any linen under a certain breadth.
    --Sir W. Temple.

Defense

Defense \De*fense"\, v. t. To furnish with defenses; to fortify. [Obs.] [Written also defence.]

Better manned and more strongly defensed.
--Hales.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
defense

c.1300, "forbidding, prohibition," also "action of guarding or protecting," from Old French defense, from Latin defensus, past participle of defendere "ward off, protect" (see defend). But it also arrived (without the final -e) from Old French defens, from Latin defensum "thing protected or forbidden," neuter past participle of defendere.\n

\nDefens was assimilated into defense, but not before it inspired the alternative spelling defence, via the same tendency that produced hence (hennis), pence (penies), dunce (Duns). First used 1935 as a euphemism for "national military resources." Defense mechanism in psychology is from 1913.\n

Wiktionary
defense

n. 1 The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury. 2 Anything employed to oppose attack(s). 3 # (context team sports English) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from score; ''contrasted with'' offense. 4 # (context team sports English) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; ''contrasted with'' offense. 5 An argument in support or justification of something. 6 Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military. 7 (context obsolete English) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

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WordNet
defense

  1. n. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring; "his teams are always good on defense" [syn: defence, defending team] [ant: offense, offense]

  2. military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies; "they died in the defense of Stalingrad"; "they were developed for the defense program" [syn: defence, defensive measure]

  3. the defendant and his legal advisors collectively; "the defense called for a mistrial" [syn: defence, defense team, defense lawyers] [ant: prosecution]

  4. protection from harm; "sanitation is the best defense against disease" [syn: defence]

  5. a structure used for defense; "the artillery battered down the defenses" [syn: defensive structure, defence]

  6. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it" [syn: refutation, defence]

  7. the justification for some act or belief; "he offered a persuasive defense of the theory" [syn: defence, vindication]

  8. a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence for the defense" [syn: defence, denial, demurrer] [ant: prosecution]

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

  10. the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the UnitedStates; created in 1947 [syn: Department of Defense, Defense Department, United States Department of Defense, DoD]

  11. (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires [syn: defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defence]

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Wikipedia
Defense

Defense or defence may refer to:

Defense (sports)

In many team sports, defence or defense is the action of preventing an opponent from scoring. The term may also refer to the tactics involved in defense, or a sub-team whose primary responsibility is defense. Similarly, a defense player or defender is a player who is generally charged with preventing the other team's forwards from being able to bear down directly on their own team's goalkeeper or goaltender. Such intentions exist in association football, ice hockey, water polo and many other sports.

Defense (legal)

In civil proceedings and criminal prosecutions under the common law, a defendant may raise a defence (or defense) in an attempt to avoid criminal or civil liability. Besides contesting the accuracy of any allegation made against him or her in a criminal or civil proceeding, a defendant may also make allegations against the prosecutor or plaintiff or raise a defence, arguing that, even if the allegations against the defendant are true, the defendant is nevertheless not liable.

Since a defence is raised by the defendant in a direct attempt to avoid what would otherwise result in liability, the defendant typically holds the burden of proof. For example, if a defendant in an assault and battery case attempts to claim provocation, the victim of said assault and battery would not have to prove that he did not provoke the defendant; the defendant would have to prove that the plaintiff did.

Defense (policy debate)

In policy debate, defense refers to argument which has no implication other than mitigating an argument made by the opposing team.

For example, "A will not cause B" is a defensive argument, while "A will cause B" is an offensive argument.

Defensive arguments may often be conceded to "kick out" of positions. For example, a team wishing to kick out of their politics disadvantage could concede the argument " Fiat takes out the link." Although this argument is frowned upon by the community, the fact that it is conceded gives it 100% percent weight in the round and thus takes out any offence the other team may have on that flow. For example, an impact turn on a disad with no internal link becomes irrelevant.

Why most coaches and judges encourage you to have more defense is because the offense is exactly that -- offense. So if the negative goes for only one argument in the 2NR, and argues that there is no affirmative offense on the flow, they essentially win the round, because at any risk of the CP, D/A, K, whatever, solving, they win the round.

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Usage examples of "defense".

With several other delegates, Adams spent a day inspecting defenses on the Delaware.

Like other Republicans, Jefferson failed to understand how Adams could reconcile negotiation for peace with measures of defense, and in private correspondence accused Adams of willfully endangering the peace.

Though it was clearly a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, its Federalist proponents in Congress insisted, like Adams, that it was a war measure, and an improvement on the existing common law in that proof of the truth of the libel could be used as a legitimate defense.

While his entire political standing, his reputation as President, were riding on his willingness to make peace, Adams was no less ardent for defense.

The German Air Force had built a big airdrome outside of Mannheim where a fighter wing had been based, back in the days when the Third Reich had an effective air defense system.

Nonetheless, Major Tim Benson, airdrome defense officer, scrambled every available fighter ready for takeoff.

That was standard procedure on Alii Drive in winter storms: first sirens, then roadblocks and panic, and finally forced evacuation of all beachfront homes by Civil Defense rescue teams.

By the time the amtracks were coming ashore, the most stubborn defenses had already been overrun or neutralized.

Attack attacl attackcome at your target from every possible direction anc press until his defenses overload.

During these years Gombos paid a visit to Ankara and Warsaw with the aim to create with the help of Turkey and Poland a line of defense against the imperialistic threatening from the West and from the East.

And reports were just coming in from overhead imagery that the transports had unloaded the ZIL-85 antiair defense systems vehicles and that they were already being dispersed about the island, hidden under the canopy of trees in the interior.

If you allow them to establish a couple of squadrons on the island, along with their antiair defenses, there will be no way we can gain air superiority immediately.

According to the analyst, there was no indication that there were antiair defenses in place, and no indication that they would be installed.

We forget that antibacterial defenses were developed by bacteria themselves long before the evolution of plant or animal life on Earth.

Strategic Defense Initiative, an antiballistic missile and space vehicle weapon.