defense team vs collection

defense team and collection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
defense team	Yes	No	No	No
collection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, collection is a hypernym of defense team; that is, collection is a word with a broader meaning than defense team:

Other hypernyms of defense team include accumulation, aggregation, assemblage.

defense team (noun)	collection (noun)
the defendant and his legal advisors collectively	the act of gathering something together
	a publication containing a variety of works
	request for a sum of money
	several things grouped together or considered as a whole