Synonyms for civil defense
civ·il de·fense

Princeton's WordNet

1. civil defensenoun

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

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1. • Protection

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.