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Topic: SPORT

defender

 noun
     
de‧fend‧er [countable]
1DS one of the players in a game such as football who have to defend their team's goal from the opposing team:
It's his fourth season as an Arsenal defender.
2 someone who defends a particular idea, belief, person etc:
He presented himself as a defender of democracy.
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