the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field | (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies |
a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong | the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury |
something done (usually as opposed to something said) | a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him |
a military engagement | protection from harm |
an act by a government body or supranational organization | a structure used to defend against attack |
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism | the justification for some act or belief |
In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges). | the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions |
the trait of being active and energetic and forceful | the defendant and his legal advisors collectively |
the series of events that form a plot | (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring |
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) | an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack |
the state of being active | (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires |