| 词汇 | defense |
| 释义 | defense noun[ C or U ] uk /dɪˈfens/ us /dɪˈfens/ US spelling ofdefence（defence的美式拼写） Backing, supporting & defending adopt advocacy affirmation ally yourself to/with someone argumentation bail out bat bet buoy champion commitment over-favour pander to someone/something prop something up provide provide for someone solidly sustenance underpin wave/show/fly the flagidiom defense | American Dictionarydefense noun[ C/U ] us/dɪˈfens/ defensenoun[C/U] (PROTECTION)the ability to protect against attack or harm, or something used to protect against attack or harm: [ C ]The vaccine strengthens the body’s defenses against infection. A defense is also an argument in support of something, esp. when it has been criticized: [ U ]Her defense consisted of denying that she knew anything about the missing check. law The defense is the person or people in a court who have been accused of doing something wrong, and their lawyer: [ U ]The defense rests (= This side has finished giving its argument). defenselessnessnoun[ U ]us/dɪˈfens·ləs·nəs/ defense noun[ U ] us/dɪˈfens, ˈdi·fens/ (in sports) the ability to prevent the opposition from scoring points in a competition, or, esp. in football, the team without the ball that is trying to prevent its opposition from scoring points: The team has pretty good scoring ability, but it’s weak on defense. defense | Business Englishdefense noun US spelling ofuk /dɪˈfens/us → defence Examples of defensedefense This places the offender in a tricky position with regard to the construction of defenses. For its part, the defense may (but is not obliged to) present an alternative theory of the events associated with the crime. The estimates, as proportions, are as follows: health (0.03), education (0.05), defense (0.13). In that case equality would not depend on the fortuity that an affirmative defense is in play. I will offer a brief sketch of this defense shortly and at least show that it cannot be easily dismissed. While social responsibility informed the development of these plans, corporate officials viewed them primarily as a defense against unions and government antitrust initiatives. It was, rather, a more comprehensive defense of a whole range of positive values threatened by rampant free-market practices and attitudes. If capitalism were only celebrated for its true merits, as her fiction attempted to do, its defense would be simple. This defense will address three areas of disagreement: the votes for enactment, the possibility of spurious inference, and the source of the inter-party effect. It resembles the difference between contributory negligence and assumption of risk as defenses in torts. 32. These separations proved most worrisome to the defense industry, because they signaled an absolute shortage of skilled personnel. As the leading industrial sector in an increasingly state driven economy, the defense industry was also among the vanguard in promoting fringe benefits. There are now many national defense industrial workers. When lawyers are put on retainer, they are paid to take a long-term interest in their client's legal defense. The liberal needs an alternative defense of the comparative claim. See all examples of defense These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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