defense policy
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3.6
- noun
- /dɪˈfɛns ˈpɑlɪsi/
- US
:
política de defensa
- Nevertheless, the debate over nuclear weapons and arms control dominated the defense policy process through the 1984 elections.
- foreign and defense policy
- congressional oversight of defense policy
- American defense policy
Examples
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The government announced a new defense policy aimed at strengthening the nation's security against potential threats.
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The Cold War stimulated the development of contract-based think tanks in defense policy and operations, intelligence, and nuclear strategy.
Academic text (1992) -
In fact, it has actually begun to address important defense policy issues.
Academic text (1990) -
Thus, Carter, not Reagan, took American defense policy into the third phase of the third cycle.
Academic text (1990) -
The detailed reevaluation of basic American defense policy thus took place in an atmosphere of crisis.
Academic text (1992) -
Although the growth of congressional intervention in defense policy is beyond dispute, the reasons for it are more problematic.
Academic text (1990) -
As the end of the millennium approaches, Indian defense policy is in disarray.
Academic text (1997) -
Although still important in shaping defense policy, the influence of neoclassical economics has declined.
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To this end, the geographic horizon of Japan's defense policy must expand beyond the region of the Japanese islands.
Academic text (1990) -
Military reform, as an example of congressional involvement in defense policy and policymaking in general, has its merits and disadvantages.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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3.4
An official plan to protect a country using its military
Antonyms
How Militaristic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a government's plan or strategy for protecting a country' is directly derivable from combining 'defense' (protection from attack or danger) with 'policy' (a guiding plan or principle). This straightforward noun+noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Defense policy pictures a country making a clear plan to keep itself safe: defense is protecting and policy is a plan or set of rules. So Defense policy means 'a government's plan to protect the country from threats'.