"passive defense" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "Coordinate term: active defense"
        },
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          "ref": "1986, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 1987, page 317",
          "text": "The construction of concrete revetments and hardened facilities, and the provision of chemical warfare defense equipment and clothing, all contribute to our passive defense capabilities.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies, page 112",
          "text": "In this view, Soviet defensive measures—including civil defense and similar passive defenses—would effectively protect their leadership and its communication system, as well as reduce civilian casualties and protect important war-related industrial capacity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Forms of defense that offer protection without counterattacking."
      ],
      "id": "en-passive_defense-en-noun-unrttcXf",
      "links": [
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          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "protection",
          "protection"
        ],
        [
          "counterattack",
          "counterattack"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) Forms of defense that offer protection without counterattacking."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
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  "word": "passive defense"
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    {
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Military"
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: active defense"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 1987, page 317",
          "text": "The construction of concrete revetments and hardened facilities, and the provision of chemical warfare defense equipment and clothing, all contribute to our passive defense capabilities.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies, page 112",
          "text": "In this view, Soviet defensive measures—including civil defense and similar passive defenses—would effectively protect their leadership and its communication system, as well as reduce civilian casualties and protect important war-related industrial capacity.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Forms of defense that offer protection without counterattacking."
      ],
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          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "protection",
          "protection"
        ],
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          "counterattack",
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        "(military) Forms of defense that offer protection without counterattacking."
      ],
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