Definitions for civil defense
civ·il de·fense

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1. civil defensenoun

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

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1. civil defense

   Civil defense refers to the organized, non-military efforts and measures taken by a government or society to protect its civilian population, infrastructure, and institutions during times of disasters, conflicts or emergencies, including both natural disasters and attacks. These measures may include preparedness training, disaster relief, evacuation planning, emergency medical services, damage control, crisis communication, and more. Essentially, the goal of civil defense is to minimize the impact of a disaster on the civilian population and to ensure a rapid and effective response.

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1. Civil defense

   Civil defense, or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state from military attack. It uses the principles of emergency operations: prevention, mitigation, preparation, response, or emergency evacuation, and recovery. Programmes of this sort were initially discussed at least as early as the 1920s and were implemented in many countries, but only became widespread after the threat of nuclear weapons was realized. Since the end of the Cold War, the focus of civil defense has largely shifted from military attack to emergencies and disasters in general. The new concept is described by a number of terms, each of which has its own specific shade of meaning, such as crisis management, emergency management, emergency preparedness, contingency planning, emergency services, and civil protection. In some countries, civil defense is seen as a key part of "total defense". For example in Sweden, the Swedish word totalförsvar refers to the commitment of a wide range of resources of the nation to its defense - including to civil protection. Respectively, some countries may have military-organized civil defense units as part of their armed forces or as a paramilitary service.

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1. Civil Defense

   Preventive emergency measures and programs designed to protect the individual or community in times of hostile attack.

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1. civil defense

   All those activities and measures designed or undertaken to: a. minimize the effects upon the civilian population caused or which would be caused by an enemy attack on the United States; b. deal with the immediate emergency conditions that would be created by any such attack; and c. effectuate emergency repairs to, or the emergency restoration of, vital utilities and facilities destroyed or damaged by any such attack.

Matched Categories

1. • Protection

How to pronounce civil defense?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of civil defense in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of civil defense in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of civil defense in a Sentence

1. Dubai Media Office:

   A fire has been reported to have broken out in a container within a ship anchored in Jebel Ali Port. A Dubai Civil Defense team is working to put out the blaze.

2. Molly Hennessy-Fiske:

   Hands, feet -- there were some remains that were wrapped in blankets, most of them that they had retrieved they put in body bags. And (the civil defense group) unzipped some of those because they wanted to show us that some of the victims were women, including at least one pregnant woman and children. Some babies as well.

3. Mohamad Adeeb:

   Castello is the road to death to Aleppo. I did not know whether I would make it to Aleppo city alive, i saw death with my own eyes, with corpses lying on the way and dozens of trucks and civilian cars and bodies that none of the civil defense teams were able to recover because of the intensity of the shelling of the regime and Russian warplanes.

4. Max Voirol:

   In the 1960's this was scheduled to be a fallout shelter, they had plans to store a whole bunch of people down here during the Cuban missile crisis. It was actually going to be the largest civil defense shelter in the entire country. Louisville, Kentucky would've been the place to be.

5. Vitali Klitschko:

   If escalation goes up... We have to be ready to defend our independence and integrity of our country -- and civil defense also have [ sic ] to be prepared, we hope this never happens, this [ is ] worst case, but we have to be prepared.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=civil defense
2. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=civil defense
4. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf