单词 | defense |
释义 | defense1 noundefense2 noun defensede‧fense1 /dɪˈfens/ noun [countable, uncountable] ![]() ![]() EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► criminal the American spelling of defence· Keanu Reeves plays a criminal defense attorney who has an uncanny knack for picking sympathetic jurors.· They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.· More particularly, he is an experienced criminal defense lawyer and knows how circumscribed our talks would necessarily have to be.· That is a sentiment echoed by criminal defense lawyer William Habern of Riverside, who specializes in state and federal parole cases. ► good· Most of the time, this is the best defense.· The military had placed the island city in the best possible defense posture, considering the inherent weakness of its geographic position.· Talking about Buffalo-Pittsburgh, Parcells thinks that whichever team plays the best defense will survive.· There is a price tag on the best defense.· Insinuation was their best defense, their best offense.· The best defense is a good offense, Jody figures.· Its honor at stake, the Pac-10 could not have selected a better last defense.· The one that plays better defense will win. ► legal· There were calls for legal defense funds and vigils for justice.· Zimmermann spent thousands on his defense, and was forced to set up a legal defense fund to cover the expenses.· Contract attorneys have pushed the deficit in the county's indigent legal defense offices to more than $ 1.8 million. ► national· The proposed test program is inadequate to ensure the necessary reliability before we begin to spend big money on national missile defense.· It was not on a similar list last year, and Marine Corps officials say it is vital to national defense.· Similarly in the international arena, an emasculated politics is incapable of sustaining an effective national defense.· As with the national budget, defense takes a big chunk out of our software spending.· He presented James Kitfield, a military reporter for the National Journal, with the prize for distinguished reporting on national defense. NOUN► agency· The Reform commission soon became the most militant of all the defense agencies.· The defense agencies had learned to recruit wealthy federation donors to their own boards.· Donations poured into the Big Three defense agencies, and their budgets and staffs soared. ► attorney· Even the defense attorneys who went up against him said as much.· They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.· Keanu Reeves plays a criminal defense attorney who has an uncanny knack for picking sympathetic jurors.· It takes between 10 and 15 years to exhaust all appeals, and lack of defense attorneys can mean a two-year delay.· Morgan is a well-known defense attorney.· Looking relaxed and rested, Simpson answered friendly questions from his defense attorney for nearly three hours.· The defense attorney, in the midst of arguing his motion, suddenly began gagging an coughing.· Goldston told jailers he was doing so because he wanted cigarettes, magazines and Los Angeles defense attorney Johnnie Cochran. ► budget· The annual defense budget stands at about $ 7 billion-40 times smaller than U.S. expenditures.· After two years in office they had increased the defense budget from $ 40 to $ 46 billion.· Such operations have expanded substantially in recent years but they still add less than 2 percent to our defense budget.· A local congressman said the canceled deployment illustrated that too much money has been cut from the defense budget.· President Clinton signed the bill into law as part of a defense budget measure.· In the Far East, defense budgets are growing very rapidly. ► company· To produce 438 more, Augustine and other defense companies want $ 64. 4 billion.· He puts it this way: Every defense company figures a certain amount of overhead into every contract.· So what did Ziniewicz, 53, who works for a local defense company, do last month? ► contractor· In addition to the Navy and civilian employees, dozens of defense contractors have relocated or beefed up local offices.· Gary was an electrical engineer for a defense contractor in the Washington area.· One benefit, he said, is the closer working relationship between defense contractors and the Navy.· It cost government and defense contractors $ 5. 6 billion in 1995 to protect classified national security information.· Many members of Congress of both parties serve districts harboring big defense contractors that would be affected. ► industry· Anders says his bold actions awakened the rest of the defense industry.· His latest budget that he has submitted for the California defense industry is a disaster.· Perry has a long and great history with the defense industry.· Twenty-two months later, all of its available power was being used and the defense industries were screaming for more.· Cohen also raised questions about the benefits of defense industry mergers, including government-financed merger expenses. ► lawyer· Jeffery J.. Carlson, a Santa Monica defense lawyer offered a similar critique.· Ruth Halpern, who had just been brainstorming about the idea with a death-penalty defense lawyer, was intrigued.· Instead of freely submitting to police interviews, they hired a pair of Denver defense lawyers, one for each of them.· Fujisaki will probably rule next week on whether defense lawyers can draw a more sinister inference from the delay during closing arguments.· The prosecutors and defense lawyers regarded Kovitsky as a holy terror.· This was how he negotiated with defense lawyers.· A good defense lawyer has an intricate network. ► minister· Peres was named prime minister, his deputy Yitzhak Rabin became defense minister, and Shamir became foreign minister. ► ministry· Labor will control the foreign and defense ministries, along with several other cabinet posts. ► missile· The principal goal of administration policy has been to persuade others to endorse missile defense.· Republicans will point to the failure as proof of the administration's lukewarm commitment to missile defense during the past seven years.· Opponents of missile defense will cite the miss as proof that politics has been driving the development schedule.· The proposed test program is inadequate to ensure the necessary reliability before we begin to spend big money on national missile defense.· Dole already has used legislative issues such as gun control and strategic missile defense to score political points.· When that happens, it will be too late to start building a missile defense.· It will require more, but missile defense will be a cornerstone.· Now, the Pentagon may cast Aegis ships as part of a ballistic missile defense network favored by Cohen. ► official· This means future defense procurement contracts would cost the government less money, defense officials say.· The secret program was largely dismantled in the early 1990s, defense officials say.· But a defensive capacity was retained to test the effectiveness of protective gear used by the armed forces, defense officials say.· It is too early to say exactly how many job cuts each agency would absorb, defense officials said. ► secretary· Absent was the fumbling that has accompanied previous Clinton appointments, from attorney-general to defense secretary and surgeon-general.· John Tower, R-Texas, as defense secretary.· Cohen made his comments during his first news conference since becoming defense secretary.· Henry H.. Shelton expressed concern last week to Rumsfeld about the defense secretary s review of the military.· The incoming defense secretary, with Army Gen.· He expected more loyalty, he told his defense secretary heatedly. ► system· Defense ministers from the group also issued a joint statement against U.S. plans to create a missile defense system.· A science-fiction thriller about a planet that is mired in civil war and whose computerized defense system runs amok, threatening everyone.· Boeing's proposals illustrate the difficulty in coming up with a missile defense system any time soon.· Your immune sys-tem can be likened to a Patriot missile defense system, detecting incoming dangers and destroying them.· From what we know, the proposed defense system can defeat only the dumbest decoys.· Dole repeated his support for the development of a national anti-missile defense system by 2003. ► team· Neither the prosecution nor the defense team could be reached for comment late Friday regarding the development.· Those feelings were reinforced by news reports saying McVeigh confessed to the bombing during interviews with his defense team.· A source close to the defense team said the no contest plea was a key element in plea bargain negotiations.· The defense team was delighted by the development.· Denvir said neither the defense team nor the defense strategy had not yet been determined.· And the defense team, slogging through hour after hour of technical material, grew increasingly annoyed.· He smiled often and passed notes to members of the defense team.· But it could have strategic value for a defense team facing the biggest case filed against an Aberdeen soldier to date. VERB► play· In those days, even quarterbacks played defense.· After two days of intensive defensive-oriented workouts, the Celtics came out Wednesday night and again played appalling defense.· Dallas Stymies Kings, 5-1 Hockey: Stars play a miserly defense and score four times on power play and once short-handed.· Blue said the team is exciting to watch, in part, because they play man-to-man defense.· He picked up 73 yards on 14 rushes before injuring a knee while playing defense in the third quarter.· Tampa Bay plays stout defense... the Bucs thirsted for a victory.· For every breakaway, or thrown pass, there is some one willing to hustle down court to play defense.· So Vince Carter dug down and played defense to block Duncan's last shot. defense1 noundefense2 noun defensede‧fense2 /dɪˈfens $ ˈdiːfens/ noun [countable, uncountable] American English ![]() ![]() EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS the players in a game of football etc whose main job is to try to prevent the other team from getting points
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