• protection from harm; "sanitation is the best Defense against disease"
• military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies; "they died in the Defense of Stalingrad"; "they were developed for the Defense program"
• a defendant''s answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence for the Defense"
• a structure used for Defense; "the artillery battered down the Defenses"
• the justification for some act or belief; "he offered a persuasive Defense of the theory"
• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in Defense he said the other man started it"
• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack; "he joined the Defense against invasion"
• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively; "the Defense called for a mistrial"
• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring; "his teams are always good on Defense"
• the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the UnitedStates; created in 1947
• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

'Defense' in other languages