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How to pronounce “defense”
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Pronunciation guide for defense
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of defense with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Authenticity: Leading and Speaking with Your Head, Heart and Core
After teaching live self-defense seminars
- Definition summary
- The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce defense
Authenticity: Leading and Speaking with Your Head, Heart and Core
After teaching live self-defense seminars
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “defense”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
- Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
- An argument in support or justification of something.
- (government, military, euphemistic) Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
- (obsolete) A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
- [Verb]
- (sports, chiefly US)[1] To employ defensive tactics (so as to block). [from 1932][1]
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