Usually means: Strategy to prevent long completions late.
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  1. prevent defense: Merriam-Webster
  2. prevent defense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. prevent defense: Wiktionary
  4. prevent defense: Dictionary.com
  5. Prevent defense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. prevent defense: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (prevent defense)

noun:  (team sports) Any defense intended to prevent rapid scoring by the offense, at the expense of allowing relatively easy, slower scoring.

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