The state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility.
Strategy in the prisoner's dilemma.
1 If confirmed, the defection would undermine Gaddafi's efforts to cling to power.
2 He has been constantly linked with a possible defection to the Conservatives.
3 A Syrian security source confirmed the defection but played down its significance.
4 If you wish, I could make a laudable case for your defection .
5 Their excellence only appears with the greater lustre amidst the general defection .
6 So at the first chance of defection they took it, he said.
7 The Pelignians, imitating the defection of the Marsians, met the same fate.
8 I became interested in the politics of defection in the late 1970s.
9 Ukridge by his defection had left me in charge of the farm.
10 Their defection reduced Egypt for the moment almost to her natural frontiers.
11 It is the defection of Bavaria, and her accession to the alliance.
12 After the defection of Russia, France was in imperative need of men.
13 The Germans, too, must soon learn of the defection of the supports.
14 That it was happening too easily, that my defection wouldn't be tolerated.
15 The defection is a coup for British and other western intelligence agencies.
16 Such an absence of interest did not bode well for his defection .
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Defection в диалектах
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