1) Alibi 2) Apologia 3) Bastion 4) Behalf 5) Bio defence 6) Biodefense 7) Confutation 8) Defence 9) Dod 10) Entrapment 11) Exculpation 12) Excuse 13) Fortification 14) Fortress 15) Idealisation 16) Intellectualisation 17) Intellectualization 18) Minelaying 19) Outwork 20) Rationalisation 21) Rebuttal
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1) Alibi, often 2) Arena chant 3) Basketball strategy 4) Cabinet department 5) Cabinet department since 1947 6) Cabinet part 7) Chant at a basketball game 8) Civil procedure 9) Court chant 10) Courtside chant 11) Cry at a basketball arena 12) Cry at NBA games 13) Cry heard at an NBA game 14) Defence
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[legal] In civil proceedings and criminal prosecutions under the common law, a defendant may raise a defense (or defence) 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 prosecuto...
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[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 te...
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[sports] In many team sports, defense or defence 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 ...
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• (n.) Alt. of Defence • (v. t.) To furnish with defenses; to fortify.
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The team playing on the field
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(from the article `baseball`) By measuring the changes in the delicate balance between offense and defense, statistics also reveal much of baseball`s history on the playing field. ... The objective of the offense is to score runs by hitting fair balls out of the reach of the defense. Each team strives to advance its players around ... ...
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(from the article `international trade`) ...is essential for the national interest: its product would be needed in wartime, when the supply of imports might well be cut off. The verdict of ... The rising cost of weapon technology does not mean that defense costs (d) necessarily rise as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP; the su...
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The psychological mechanisms used to control anxiety, e.g., rationalization, projection. ... Origin: L. Defendo, to ward off ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(de-fens´) behavior directed to protection of the individual from injury. character defense any character trait, such as a mannerism, attitude, or affectation, that serves as a defense mechanism. insanity defense a legal concept that a person cannot be conv...
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n. 1) The effort of the defendant's attorney during the trial process designed to defeat the suing party or prosecution in a criminal case. 2) To counter, or defeat the plaintiff's contentions, a response to a complaint.
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a team's function of preventing the opposition from scoring.
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De·fense' transitive verb To furnish with defenses; to fortify. [ Obsolete] [ Written also
defence .] « Better manned and more strongly
defensed .»
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[Basketball] the act of preventing the offense from scoring; the team without the ball.
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[Soccer] a team's function of preventing the opposition from scoring.
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Defense is an attempt by a reigning champion to defend his title in a contest
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1) A general term for the effort of an attorney representing a defendant during trial and in pretrial maneuvers to defeat the party suing or the prosecution in a criminal case. 2) A response to a complaint, called an affirmative defense, to counter, defeat, or remove all or a part of the contentions of the plaintiff.
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protect oneself or offspring; babies
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a way of protecting yourself from enemies. For fish, it includes camouflage, self-enlargement, color change, ink squirting, and propulsion
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A team's function of preventing the opposition from scoring.
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The team on defense is the team without possession of the basketball. While on defense, the team will attempt to prevent the opposition from scoring in their basket.
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the act of preventing the offense from scoring; the basketball team without the ball.
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demurrer noun a defendant`s answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; `he gave evidence for the defense`
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defence noun military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies; `they died in the defense of Stalingrad`; `they were developed for the defense program`
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