Defence and Service

Defence

Defence noun - The act of defending someone or something against attack or injury.

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Service and defence are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Service" instead the word "Defence" as a noun or an adjective.

Service noun - An act of kind assistance.

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Defence and service are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defence" instead the word "Service" as a noun or an adjective.

good	good defence	good service
better	better defence	better service
normal	normal defence	normal service
public	public defence	public service
Other adjectives: direct, standard, poor, actual, entire, real, terrible, main, personal, internal, new, terminal, final, military, last, magical.

As you will see, there are a lot of weapons that never saw squadron service, due to Government defence cuts.

Source: Useful Notes / Ultimate Defence of the Realm
Up until recently, these vehicles were fairly common in Arab service; several of them ended up being captured by the Israel Defence Force, which made use of them as well.

Source: Armored Coffins
This high-altitude air defence missile family, entering service in the early 1980s, is the only ABM to have been used in real combat, namely against the "stretched Scuds" used by Saddam Hussein's Iraq against Israel and Saudi Arabia in 1991, and in the 2003 Iraq War against short-ranged missiles.

Source: Useful Notes / Superior Firepower Surface To Air Missiles

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