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CIVIL DEFENSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does civil defense mean?
• CIVIL DEFENSE (noun)
The noun CIVIL DEFENSE has 1 sense:
1. activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster
Familiarity information: CIVIL DEFENSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("civil defense" is a kind of...):
protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "civil defense"):
fire watching ((during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky)
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