Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Capability of being defended; defensibleness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Capability of being defended.

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  • noun The state or quality of being defensible

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun capability of being defended

Etymologies

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defensible +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • To do so, IT must work together with the legal, compliance and risk departments to apply automation, defensibility, efficiencies and a best practices framework around e-discovery.

    Why Managing E-mail Matters Andy Byrne 2010

  • To do so, IT must work together with the legal, compliance and risk departments to apply automation, defensibility, efficiencies and a best practices framework around e-discovery.

    Why Managing E-mail Matters Andy Byrne 2010

  • A Security Council resolution fixing the 1967 lines as borders would call into question even Israel's legitimacy, dramatically undercutting prospects for security and defensibility.

    Obama and the Coming Palestinian State John Bolton 2010

  • The question of defensibility is one of the toughest for an entrepreneur to answer.

    Marty Zwilling: Every Startup Needs a Reality Check Now and Then Marty Zwilling 2011

  • To do so, IT must work together with the legal, compliance and risk departments to apply automation, defensibility, efficiencies and a best practices framework around e-discovery.

    Why Managing E-mail Matters Andy Byrne 2010

  • The second is that they care about the moral defensibility of our lives, and practices.

    Matthew Yglesias » Human Achievement Hour 2010

  • To do so, IT must work together with the legal, compliance and risk departments to apply automation, defensibility, efficiencies and a best practices framework around e-discovery.

    Why Managing E-mail Matters Andy Byrne 2010

  • The question of defensibility is one of the toughest for an entrepreneur to answer.

    Marty Zwilling: Every Startup Needs a Reality Check Now and Then Marty Zwilling 2011

  • His work with the EMAP focused on program policy formulation, information management issues, and strengthening the scientific-defensibility, reliability and credibility of all EMAP activities and products.

    Contributor: Sidney Draggan 2010

  • I pick all my halfway houses for escape as well as defensibility and I do a lot of work on the properties late at night.

    Edge Jeffery Deaver 2010

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