Defense
Defense or defence may refer to:
Tactics and strategy
- Defense (military)
- Self-defense, the use of force to defend oneself
- Civil defense, the organizing of civilians to deal with enemy attacks
Sports
- Defense (sports), the action of preventing an opponent from scoring
- Defender (association football), an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals
- Defenceman (ice hockey), a player, other than the goaltender, in a defensive position
Politics and economics
Concepts in law
Other uses
- Defense of a doctoral thesis, also called viva voce; see dissertation
- HMS Defence, Royal Navy ships of this name
- La Défense, a business district in Paris
- The Grande Arche, commonly known as Arche de la Défense, near Paris
- DeFence, an art project
- Haganah (Hebrew for "The Defence"), a paramilitary organization in British Palestine
- Defence mechanisms, in psychology
- A chess opening by Black
See also
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