defensive
防御性,防御性的,防卫性,防守性
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Definitions
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- : serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
- : made or carried on for the purpose of resisting attack: defensive treaty; a defensive attitude.
- : of or relating to defense.
- : able to provide moderately steady growth with minimal risk: The bank has put a large percentage of its assets in defensive rather than growth stocks.considered stable and relatively safe for investment, especially during a decline in the economy.
- : excessively concerned with guarding against the real or imagined threat of criticism, injury to one's ego, or exposure of one's shortcomings.
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- : a position or attitude of defense: to be on the defensive about one's mistakes.
- : Obsolete. something that serves to defend.
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Examples
The Capitals have allowed at least three goals in 10 of 12 games and have repeatedly talked about getting better in their defensive zone.
University of Puget Sound defensive lineman Peter Ciari missed the rush — and the snarl of the chain saw.
The Cavaliers held Georgia Tech well below its scoring average in that game, and this time, Virginia began with another defensive surge in the first half.
One of those players, Jason Pierre-Paul, reiterated calls to re-sign key defensive players.
Washington had four scorers in double figures, perhaps in part because of a tweak in the starting lineup on Brooks’s end, and on the defensive end the Wizards did what was needed to keep Chicago in check.
And I need to ask why their truth makes me so defensive, as if my truth is the only truth.
Community activists attack racial bias in policing, so police get defensive?
Nelson wrote a paper at Dartmouth on Standard Oil, which was about as defensive and as deeply researched as you would expect.
I am, as the leader of the minority, the defensive coordinator.
On the staff of every football team, you have an offensive coordinator and a defensive coordinator.
Where were those defensive preparations concerning which we were requested to keep silence?