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defence
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defence (US), defense
1. Law a defendant's denial of the truth of the allegations or charge against him
2. Law the defendant and his legal advisers collectively
3. American football
a. the team that does not have possession of the ball
b. the members of a team that play in such circumstances
4. Psychoanal See defence mechanism


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The Fort started its life as a jail but was converted to a defensive structure at the time of the Jameson raid at the end of 1895.
The defensive structure is not something to blast through but instead is to be relaxed into.
``We want to do some things to change some of our defensive structure and stance, do some things that will give us different options.
 
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