Synonyms of the word

defense

• n. The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
• n. Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
• n. An argument in support or justification of something.
• n. (government, military) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
• n. (obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.

accumulation

• n. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
• n. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
• n. A mass of something piled up or collected.
• n. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
• n. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
• n. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is…

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

aggregation

• n. The act of collecting together (aggregating).
• n. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
• n. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
• n. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
• n. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
• n. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.

answer

• n. A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
• n. A solution to a problem.
• n. (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a reply or response to.
• v. (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
• v. To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
• v. (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
• v. To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
• v. To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
• v. To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform;…
• v. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification;…
• v. To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
• v. (obsolete) To render account to or for.
• v. (obsolete) To atone; to be punished for.
• v. (obsolete) To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.

assemblage

• n. The process of assembling or bringing together.
• n. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
• n. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often…

collection

• n. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
• n. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
• n. The activity of collecting.
• n. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
• n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
• n. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
• n. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
• n. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University slang) A set of college exams generally taken at the start…

construction

• n. The process of constructing.
• n. Anything that has been constructed.
• n. The trade of building structures.
• n. A building, model or some other structure.
• n. (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
• n. The manner in which something is built.
• n. (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
• n. The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
• n. The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
• n. (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

defence

• n. The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
• n. Something used to oppose attack(s).
• n. An argument in support or justification of something.
• n. (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with…
• n. (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with…
• n. Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
• n. (obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To furnish with defences; to fortify.

demurrer

• n. someone who demurs or objects.
• n. (law) A motion by a party to an action, for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question,…

denial

• n. (logic) The negation in logic.
• n. A refusal to comply with a request.
• n. An assertion of untruth.
• n. Refusal to believe a problem exists.
• n. (dated, psychology) A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.

justification

• n. A reason, explanation, or excuse which provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or…
• n. (typography) The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification),…

organisation

• n. British spelling standard spelling of organization.

organization

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
• n. (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
• n. (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
• n. (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
• n. (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

process

• n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
• n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
• n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
• n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
• n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
• n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
• n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
• n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
• v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
• v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
• v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
• v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

protection

• n. The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.
• n. The state of being safe.
• n. A means of keeping or remaining safe.
• n. A means, such as a condom, of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.
• n. (insurance) Coverage.
• n. Immunity from harm obtained by illegal payments, as bribery or extortion.
• n. (economics) Restrictions on foreign competitors which limit their ability to compete with domestic producers…
• n. (computing) An instance of a security token associated with a resource (such as a file).

refutation

• n. An act of refuting or disproving; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory…
• n. A vocal answer to an attack on one's assertions.

squad

• n. A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
• n. A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
• n. (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
• n. (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
• n. (Britain, dialect) Sloppy mud.

structure

• n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• n. The underlying shape of a solid.
• n. The overall form or organization of something.
• n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
• n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
• n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
• v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

team

• n. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
• n. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
• n. (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
• n. (Britain, law, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having,…
• v. (intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
• v. (transitive) To convey or haul with a team.
• v. Misspelling of teem.

vindication

• n. The act of vindicating or the state of being vindicated.
• n. Evidence, facts, statements, or arguments that justify a claim or belief.