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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

1. The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
2. Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
3. (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
4. (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offense.
5. An argument in support or justification of something.
6. (law, by extension) The case presented by the defendant in a legal proceeding.
7. (law, by extension) The lawyer or team thereof who presents such a case.
8. (government, military, euphemistic) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
9. (obsolete) A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

Verbit

1. (sports, chiefly US) To employ defensive tactics (so as to block).
2. (now rare) To furnish with defenses; to defend, protect.