the act of constructing something | (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies |
the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury |
drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him |
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | protection from harm |
the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | a structure used to defend against attack |
an interpretation of a text or action | the justification for some act or belief |
a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions |
| the defendant and his legal advisors collectively |
| (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring |
| an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack |
| (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires |