defense

• n. 防衛、保護; 防御措置; 防衛
• vt.に対して企てる

defendから。-s、過去分詞接尾辞。

defense (n.)

c. 1300, "forbidding, prohibition," also "action of guarding or protecting," from Old French defense, from Latin defensus, past participle of defendere "ward off, protect" (see defend). But it also arrived (without the final -e) from Old French defens, from Latin defensum "thing protected or forbidden," neuter past participle of defendere.

Defens was assimilated into defense, but not before it inspired the alternative spelling defence, via the same tendency that produced hence (hennis), pence (penies), dunce (Duns). First used 1935 as a euphemism for "national military resources." Defense mechanism in psychology is from 1913.

1. The prosecution and defense were bandying accusations back and forth.

原告と被告は私のところに来て、互いに非難し合った。

2.NATO defense ministers wrap up their meeting in Brussels today.

NATO各国の国防長官は今日、ブリュッセルでの会議を円満に終えた。

3.Their defense makets are too small to sustain economically viable production runs.

彼らの国防市場は小さすぎて、経済的な実行可能性については生産を維持するのに十分ではない。

4.Twenty eight percent of the federal budget is spent on defense .

28%の連邦予算が国防に使用されている。

5.Issues of national defense have been the undoing of Democratic candidates.

国防問題は民主党候補の敗北を招いた。