These big paydays have incentivized a record number of Cuban players to defect.
I think we are empowering refugees and there will be many more people like me who defect.
After clashing with coach Victor Tikhonov, a KGB-installed tyrant, he chose to challenge the government and defect to the NHL.
When Michele Bachmann claimed in 2011 that a supporter had been bribed to defect to Ron Paul, observers rolled their eyes.
He also may have tried to defect from the Taliban after they lost the war and join up with the Afghan government.
Yet the manner, and the air, made up (as I intended they should) for that defect.
What we imagine to be a superior perfection, may really be a defect.
Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect—he read it to his friends.
Most often a virtue presents itself side by side with a defect.
Some defect in the latter may be excused, but not in the former.
early 15c., from Middle French defect and directly from Latin defectus "failure, revolt, falling away," noun use of past participle of deficere "to fail, desert" (see deficient).
1570s, from Latin defectus, past participle of deficere "to fail, desert" (see defect (n.)). Related: Defected; defecting.
defect de·fect (dē'fěkt', dĭ-fěkt')
n.
A lack of or abnormality in something necessary for normal functioning; a deficiency or imperfection.
