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What (who) is fend off - definition
AVANT-GARDE THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS IN NEW YORK CITY
Off-off-off-Broadway; Off-Off Broadway; Off-off Broadway; Off off-Broadway; Off Off Broadway; Off-off broadway; Indie theater; Off-Off-Off-Broadway; Off-off-Broadway theatre; Off-Off-Broadway
fend off
1.
If you fend off unwanted questions, problems, or people, you stop them from affecting you or defend yourself from them, but often only for a short time and without dealing with them completely.
He looked relaxed and determined as he fended off questions from the world's Press...
He had struggled to pay off creditors but couldn't fend them off any longer.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P
2.
If you fend off someone who is attacking you, you use your arms or something such as a stick to defend yourself from their blows.
He raised his hand to fend off the blow.
= ward off
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P
fend off
(Naut.) Keep off, ward off, keep from collision.
Peter Fend
AMERICAN ARTIST
Peter fend; Fend, Peter
Peter Fend is an American artist born in 1950. In 1980, he founded Offices and the Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation with Colen Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince and Robin Winters, which was a "corporation" invented for a group of artists.
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Off-off-Broadway
Off-off-Broadway theaters are smaller New York City theaters than Broadway and off-Broadway theaters, and usually have fewer than 100 seats. The off-off-Broadway movement began in 1958 as part of a response to perceived commercialism of the professional theatre scene and as an experimental or avant-garde movement of drama and theatre. Over time, some off-off-Broadway productions have moved away from the movement's early experimental spirit.
Examples of use of fend off
1. The cost–cutting effort was part of a strategy to fend off the merger.
2. Consuming vitamin C or zinc lozenges before a flight might help fend off illness, Weber said.
3. Many of the Iraqis fled, leaving the two Americans to fend off the advancing fighters.
4. The woman was convicted of murdering a man while trying to fend off a forcible rape.
5. The victims girlfriend tried to fend off the attacker but could not prevent the fatal stabbing.