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civil defense

DEFINITIONS OF: civil defense

1

n activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster

Types:
fire watching
(during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky
Type of:
protection
the activity of protecting someone or something
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