| Subject | English | Russian |
| media. | defect to opposition | перейти на сторону оппозиции (bigmaxus) |
| busin. | defect to rival business | уходить к конкурентам |
| gen. | defect to the enemy | перебежать к противнику |
| obs. | defect to the enemy | передаться (Супру) |
| gen. | defect to the enemy | перейти на сторону противника |
| gen. | defect to the enemy | стать перебежчиком |
| gen. | defect to the enemy's side | перейти на сторону врага (Sarah follows him across the Soviet border to find out that he tries to defect to the enemy's side. • What is the highest-ranking American to ever defect to an enemy's side during wartime? 4uzhoj) |
| gen. | defect to the opposition | перейти на сторону оппозиции (bookworm) |
| gen. | defect to the side of | перейти на сторону (A group of soldiers was reported to have defected to the side of the protesters.  theguardian.com • Shoigu ... was shown meeting with Ukrainian officers who defected to the side of pro-Russian local authorities. • Ruslan Yamadayev fought against the Russian army during Chechnya's separatist war in the 1990s, but defected to the Kremlin side during the second war, which began in 1999. 4uzhoj) |