Usually means: Resists or disobeys authority or expectations.
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  1. defies: Merriam-Webster
  2. defies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. defies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Defies, defies: Wordnik
  6. defies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. defies: Wiktionary
  8. defies: Dictionary.com
  9. defies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. defies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defies: Legal dictionary

(Note: See defy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (defy)

verb:  (transitive) To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).
verb:  (transitive) To refuse to obey.
verb:  To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
noun:  (obsolete) A challenge.
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