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Defense

Defense or '''defence''' (see American and British English spelling differences#-ce.2C -se|-ce/-se) may refer to: The '''tactics''' and '''strategy''' of defending against attack:
- Defense (military)
- Defense (sport)
    - Defender (soccer), in association football
    - Defenceman (ice hockey)
- a Chess opening as created in reply by Black
- Defense (legal)
- Self-defense
- Civil defense In '''politics''' and '''economics''':
- National security
    - Defense minister
- International security
- The defense industry
    - Defense contractor, a company that provides defense-related services Concepts in '''law''':
- Right of self-defense|Self-defense (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, in Paris
- DeFence|'DeFence', an artproject
- The Haganah (in Hebrew: "The Defence"), a paramilitary organization in British Palestine
- Tower defense, a video game
- The pharmaceutical Cimetidine, used for treating gastric ulcers

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