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/prˈoʊtəkˌɑl/ /prˈoʊtəkˌɔl/ Listen

noun

Protocol n.

The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.

The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction.

(Diplomacy)

(a)

A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.

(b)

A convention not formally ratified.

(c)

An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.

verb

Protocol v. t. To make a protocol of.

Protocol v. i. To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols.

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Etymology of 'Protocol'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the same month. This surrender virtually closed the war, but did not restore the contending nations to a status of peace. Twenty-three thousand Spanish soldiers had laid down their arms and had been transformed from enemies to friends. On the tenth of August following, a protocol was submitted by the President of the United States, which was accepted by the Spanish cabinet on the eleventh, and on the twelfth the President announced the cessation of hostilities, thus closing a war which had lasted one hundred and ten days. On the tenth of December a Treaty of ...

— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward

... of politicians, soldiers, and clergy assembled in the long audience room of the departmental offices to debate the terms of the peace protocol, news of the arrival of the Cossack was brought by a slow-moving messenger from the dock. At the abrupt announcement the acting-Bishop was seen to start from his chair. Was the master himself on board? Quien sabe? And, if so—but, impossible! He would ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... Austrian officers with the Emperor-King's commission in their pockets were made prisoners from among the Serb ranks, and the internal danger of Hungary, as well as the treachery of the Court, made it simply impossible to carry out, or wish to carry out, the Protocol. But Kossuth was still the King's Minister, and could not say this openly. Unless he would have taken the first step to civil war, he was bound to throw a thin veil over it in public speech and action. The measure which he then promoted was ... that no Hungarian ...

— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking

... to the protocol of an interview with the ambassador (in Murdin, 579) there can be no doubt of the reality of the plot. The ambassador does not deny that he had been spoken to about it, he only excuses himself for not having had the Queen informed of it, but asserts ...

— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

... ratified differed in some particulars from the protocol. In the protocol the United States agreed "to respect the complete territorial integrity of the Dominican Republic." This covenant was omitted in the final document in deference to Roosevelt's opponents who could ...

— Theodore Roosevelt and His Times - A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement; Volume 47 in The - Chronicles Of America Series • Harold Howland

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