Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A range of emergency measures to be taken by an organized body of civilian volunteers for the protection of life and property in the event of natural disaster or enemy attack.
WordNet 3.0
- n. activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster
Examples
“The rubber-banded underwear seemed just as efficient a measure as the instruction of our civil defense teacher to hide under our desks if America hit us with an atomic bomb.”
“At the top floor the car stopped and they stepped out into a small room filled with boxes stenciled with block Korean letters, suitcases, a broken TV set, an olive-drab drum of civil defense drinking water.”
“Mr. Griffin, I think it would do no harm to examine our civil defense plans.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘civil defense’.
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
AA battery, aa lava, aapa mire, abandon the project, abandon the sewer..., abandoned car, abandoned dyke, abandoned farm, abandoned field, abandoned industr..., abandoned industr..., abandoned land and 5386 more...
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SEDE - military operations
Iran-Iraq War, prevention, increase of readi..., replacement of wa..., rise of readiness, stabilisation, build up, basic training, defence procurement, force modernisation, full mobilisation, grueling training and 387 more...
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SEDE - types of warfare
warfare, defence, war, acoustic warfare, all-out war, all-round defence, armed conflict, asymmetric warfare, biological warfare, blitzkrieg, chemical warfare, civil defense and 20 more...
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