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n. Chiefly British Variant of defense.

n. The action of protecting from attack.

n. Something used to oppose attack.

n. An argument in support or justification of something.

v. To furnish with defences; to fortify.

noun-and-verb-transitive. See defense.

n. etc. See defense, etc.

n. an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack

n. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring

n. protection from harm

n. a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

n. (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

n. the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

n. (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

n. a structure used to defend against attack

n. the defendant and his legal advisors collectively

n. the justification for some act or belief

n. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

"Opposition parties on Monday urged Defence Minister Joe Modise to furnish Parliament with the full reasons for defence secretary"

defenced    defences   

squad    team    protection    aggregation    collection    accumulation    assemblage   

defense   

Nuremberg defence   

Spence    cents    commence    commonsense    condense    defense    dense    dispense    expense    fence   

defense    protection    resistance    support    defender    education    possession    maintenance    independence    administration