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Defense

Defense (U.S. spelling) or '''defence''' (worldwide; see American and British English spelling differences#-ce.2C -se|-ce/-se) may refer to: The tactics and strategy of defending against attack:
- Defence (military)
- Defence (sport)
    - Defender (football), a specialist defensive player in association football
    - Defenceman (ice hockey), a specialist defensive player in ice hockey
- a Chess opening as created in reply by Black
- Defence (legal)
- Self-defence
- Civil defence In '''politics''' and '''economics''':
- National security
    - Defence minister
- International security
- The defence industry
    - Defence contractor, a company that provides defense-related services Concepts in '''law''':
- Self-defence (theory)
- Defense of property In '''psychology''':
- Defence mechanism It may also refer to:
- A euphemism for war or the military
- Defense of a doctoral thesis, also called '''viva voce'''; see Thesis committee
- La Défense, a business district in Paris
- The Grande Arche, commonly known as Arche de la Défense, a monument in the Parisian district of the same name
- DeFence|'DeFence', an interactive conceptual art project for freedom of cohabitation
- The Haganah (in Hebrew: "The Defence"), a paramilitary organization in British Palestine

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