Antonym: assault, attack, offense. Similar words: defensive, defender, defendant, offense, offensive, dense, sense, license. Meaning: [dɪˈfens] 
n. 1. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring 2. military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies 3. the defendant and his legal advisors collectively 4. protection from harm 5. a structure used to defend against attack 6. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions 7. the justification for some act or belief 8. a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him 9. an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack 10. the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947 11. (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.
n. 1. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring 2. military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies 3. the defendant and his legal advisors collectively 4. protection from harm 5. a structure used to defend against attack 6. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions 7. the justification for some act or belief 8. a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him 9. an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack 10. the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947 11. (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires. 
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151) But there were also a boatload of questions about his defense, maturity and ability to get along in the clubhouse.
152) He came to the defense of his younger brother, Von, by swinging a chain at his attacker.
153) He puts it this way: Every defense company figures a certain amount of overhead into every contract.
154) Then, trials frequently proceeded without defense attorneys because only 3 percent of defendants could afford them, Gahima said.
155) He previewed the coming Congress, hoping for bipartisan consensus in trade, taxes, defense.
156) The Raiders spent most of their bye week adjusting their defense and offense.
157) At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the military defense complex.
158) Cohen made his comments during his first news conference since becoming defense secretary.
159) Excellence in defense management will not and cannot emerge by legislation or directive.
160) Congress has backed down on its demand for an increase in defense spending.
161) Anders says his bold actions awakened the rest of the defense industry.
162) During and after the war,[www.Sentencedict.com] Mr Packard co-founded an association to get more defense contracts for West Coast firms.
163) The retrial is now in the defense rebuttal phase, and closing arguments are tentatively set for next week.
164) Mostly because of his defense and athletic ability, his playing time has increased the last two weeks.
165) Prosecutors called 24 witnesses, all of whom underwent aggressive cross-examination by the defense.
166) The proposed test program is inadequate to ensure the necessary reliability before we begin to spend big money on national missile defense.
167) A less intelligent and less secure judge might have permitted the defense to explore these avenues.
168) I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. Malcolm X 
169) The defense contends that linking those dots properly reveals a picture of Simpson as an innocent man wrongly accused.
170) Merger mania and speculation about a Boeing-McDonnell Douglas combination boosted the shares of aerospace and defense stocks.
171) In the second half, the Steelers defense resembled a swarm of bumblebees.
172) The annual defense budget stands at about $ 7 billion-40 times smaller than U.S. expenditures.
173) The bread and butter of defense attorneys is to see how many people they can put on trial.
174) The Department of Defense, especially, has a history littered with weapons programs and other projects canceled for good cause.
175) Many members of Congress of both parties serve districts harboring big defense contractors that would be affected.
176) The vendors' protests inspired newspaper columnists on influential papers to come to their defense.
177) The defense attorney pleads against the jury.
178) It alters the single IP and single rate controls of traditions and uses multilateral rate controls, the active defense way with agent filtering system may be more powerful.
179) In conjunction with Lockheed Martin, Lakota and other participating small businesses are working on Defense Department-funded programs under the Small Business Innovation Research program.
180) Several thousands of Lebanese have been killed at the hands of the Israeli Defense Force.
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