Canadian English Meaning of defenses
defences
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Definitions and Meaning of defenses in English
defenses
a means or method of protecting the physical or functional integrity of body or mind, the collected facts and method adopted by a defendant to protect and defend against a plaintiff's action, a defense of an obligor under a negotiable instrument that can be asserted against anyone but a holder in due course, a defending party or group, the denial, answer, or plea (see plea sense 2b) of one against whom a criminal or civil action is brought, the defending side in a legal proceeding, a defensive structure, a defense that shields the defendant from any liability and bars any recovery by the plaintiff compare partial defense in this entry, the theory or ground that forms the basis for a defendant's opposition to an allegation in a complaint or to a charge in a charging instrument (as an indictment), a defense by which the defendant reduces the amount of damages of which he or she is liable compare complete defense in this entry, the evidence and arguments presented supporting the defendant's opposition see also accord, alibi, assumption of risk, coercion, consent, contributory negligence at negligence, denial, diminished capacity, duress, entrapment, estoppel, fraud, infancy, insanity, intoxication, laches, mistake, necessity, res judicata, statute of limitations, the answer made by the defendant in a legal action, the act of defending, a defending party or group (as in a court of law), ability to keep an opponent from scoring in a game or contest, a defense to a criminal charge based on the assertion that the criminal act was committed to avoid the commission of an even greater evil, a defense that is based on evidence sufficient to warrant setting aside a default judgment against the defendant in civil litigation, a defensive team, a defense of an obligor of a negotiable instrument that may be asserted even against a holder in due course, capability of resisting attack, a defense that does not deny the truth of the allegations against the defendant but gives some other reason (as insanity, assumption of risk, or expiration of the statute of limitations) why the defendant cannot be held liable, a sequence of moves available to the second player in the opening (see opening sense 3a), a basis upon which an obligor of a negotiable instrument may avoid liability under the instrument, means or method of defending or protecting oneself, one's team, or another, the military and industrial aggregate that authorizes and supervises arms production, complete defense in this entry, means or method of defending, the act or action of defending see also self-defense, to take specific defensive action against (an opposing team or player or an offensive play), an argument in support, choice of evils defense in this entry, an argument in support or justification, the act or action of defending
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defences
a means or method of protecting the physical or functional integrity of body or mind, the collected facts and method adopted by a defendant to protect and defen
protections,safeguards,shields,walls,armaments,armour,Bucklers,Guards,Screens,securities
Attacks,offences,offences,aggressions,offensives
defenestrating => defenestrating, defenestrated => defenestrated, defends => defends, defenders => Defenders, defects => defects,
