defense

Etymology
From, itself from. Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1) The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
 * 2) Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
 * 3)  A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
 * 4)  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)  The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.
 * 7)  The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case.
 * 8)  Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
 * Department of Defense
 * 1)  A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
 * 1)  A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:defense

Antonyms

 * (law)
 * (law)

Translations

 * Afrikaans: verdediging
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, حِمَايَة, , مُدَافَعَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: абаро́на,
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 防禦
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forsvar
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: defendo
 * Estonian: kaitse
 * Faroese: verja
 * Finnish: puolustautuminen,
 * French:
 * Georgian: თავდაცვა, მოგერიება
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: vörn
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cosaint
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: қорғаныс, қорғану
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بەرگْری
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ການຫ້າມປາມ
 * Latvian: aizsardzība
 * Lithuanian: gynyba
 * Macedonian: одбрана
 * Malay:
 * Maori: waonga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: d'fense
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: forsvar
 * Nynorsk: forsvar
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: bewering
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, , , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: amachay
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏дбрана, о̏брана
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese: ආරක්ෂක
 * Slovak: obrana
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: depensa
 * Tajik: дифоъ, мудофиа, ҳимоя, муҳофиза,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: دِفاع,, رَکْشا, مُدافَعَت
 * Uyghur: ھىمايە, مۇداپىئە
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: cái để bảo vệ, ,
 * Yiddish: פֿאַרטיידיקונג


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, отбрани́телни съоръже́ния
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 防禦物
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forsvar
 * Dutch: ,
 * Faroese: verja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: თავდაცვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بەرگری
 * Latin: mūnīmen, mūnīmentum, dēfēnsa
 * Macedonian: одбрана
 * Maori: whakarurunga
 * Old English: bewering
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , оборони́тельные сооруже́ния
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏дбрана, о̏брана
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
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 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
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 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Romanian:
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 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐍉𐌽𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀπολογία
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: одбрана
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏дбрана, о̏брана
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Urdu: صَفائی


 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: თავდაცვა, თავდაცვის სამინისტრო
 * Malayalam:
 * Old English: utwaru, wiþermal
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


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