(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics |
the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | act of removing from office or employment |
a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | the act of uniform movement |
protection from harm | to move something from its natural environment |
a structure used to defend against attack | an event in which something is displaced without rotation |
the justification for some act or belief | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one |
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound |
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 | |