protectorate

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  1. noun A relationship of protection and partial control assumed by a superior power over a dependent country or region.
  2. noun The protected country or region.
  3. noun The government, office, or term of a protector.
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  • I tell you, joining the protectorate was the best thing the town elders ever did here. —  Shining Steel
  • Their empire had been swallowed up by the protectorate, and John could not believe that it would ever again be the proud and independent power it had once been. —  Shining Steel
  • It is said that on the basis of this protectorate, they are already teaching in their schools that Alexander the Great was a Bulgarian and that it will be but a short time before they claim Aristotle himself, an indignity the Greeks will never suffer! —  20 Years At Hull House
  • Being a protectorate is not the same as having high number of troops on the ground. —  Home
  • But within this never-ending protectorate, which is what —  Anarkismo.net
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  1. = French protectorat = Spanish Portuguese protectorado = Italian protettorato, from New Latin *protectoratus, the office of a protector, from Late Latin protector, protector: see protector.
 

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