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Protection   /prətˈɛkʃən/  /pərtˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Protection

noun
1.
The activity of protecting someone or something.
2.
A covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury.  Synonyms: protective cover, protective covering.  "Wax provided protection for the floors"
3.
Defense against financial failure; financial independence.  Synonym: security.  "Insurance provided protection against loss of wages due to illness"
4.
The condition of being protected.  Synonym: shelter.  "He enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home"
5.
Kindly endorsement and guidance.  Synonyms: aegis, auspices.
6.
The imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition.  Synonym: trade protection.
7.
Payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence.  Synonym: tribute.



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"Protection" Quotes from Famous Books



... me, and said,—'Shall I get you a cab, Mr. Moore? Sure, a'n't I the man that patronizes your Melodies?' He then ran off in search of a vehicle, while Irving and I stood close up, like a pair of male caryatides, under the very narrow protection of a hall-door ledge, and thought, at last, that we were quite forgotten by my patron. But he came faithfully back, and while putting me into the cab, (without minding at all the trifle I gave him for ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various

... the priests rendered services, great services to the poorest, to the sick and dying, that they assisted, consoled, counseled, sustained, but all this by means of money, in exchange for white pieces, for beautiful glittering coins, with which they paid for sacraments and masses, advice and protection, pardon of sins and indulgences, purgatory and paradise accompanying the yearly income, and the generosity of ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant

... haven't the slightest idea what I am going to run up against. There may be others in the house, and I might not dare to leave Miss Eloise behind alone without some protection. In a way she is in almost as much danger as the others if she falls into Kirby's hands. I shall endeavor to induce her to go ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish

... up and down the path which ran the depth of the house to the kitchen door and servants' entrance. There was an iron gate separating the path from the sidewalk, always kept locked at night, and McIntyre had thought that sufficient protection and had not put an iron ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... bribes, amount, in the three specified provinces, to 95,000l. Do you believe that these provinces were thus particularly favored? Do you think that they were chosen as a little demesne for Mr. Hastings? that they were the only provinces honored with his protection, so far as to take bribes from them? Do you perceive anything in their local situation that should distinguish them from other provinces of Bengal? What is the reason why Dinagepore, Patna, Nuddea, should have the ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. X. (of 12) • Edmund Burke


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