defense program

1. 1.

   a program for defending a country against its enemies

   Synonymsdefense policydefence programdefence policy

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Questions about defense program

What does defense program mean?

defense program means "a program for defending a country against its enemies".

What is another word for defense program?

Close synonyms include defense policy, defence program, defence policy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is defense program a common word?

defense program is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.