line of defence

Questions about line of defence

What does line of defence mean?

line of defence means "any organization whose responsibility it is to defend against something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for line of defence?

Close synonyms include line of defense, line of defense. 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 line of defence a common word?

line of defence 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.