protectionism
[pruh-tek-shuh-niz-uh m]
- Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- any program, policy, or system of laws that seeks to provide protection for property owners, wildlife, the environment, etc.
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Origin of protectionism
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Examples from the Web for protectionist
Contemporary Examples
President Obama saved 1,000 jobs by embracing a protectionist policy on tires.
The FN has become a protectionist, anticapitalist party of the dislocated working classes.
Then there is always Congress, threatening a rash of protectionist bills directed solely at China.
Historical Examples
Yet in the Protectionist dispensation, this has become an article of faith.
'Tis Sixty Years SinceCharles Francis Adams
It was Protectionist so long as it suited its purpose to be so.
British SocialismJ. Ellis Barker
As to himself he had never been and was not now "a protectionist."
The Life of King Edward VIIJ. Castell Hopkins
On further thought, Emmeline is not a Protectionist; she is an Anarchist.
Post-ImpressionsSimeon Strunsky
Mr Editor,—I am a manufacturer of cloth, and a protectionist.
Economic SophismsFrederic Bastiat
Word Origin and History for protectionist
n.
in the economics sense, 1841, from French protectionniste (in political economy sense, protection is attested from 1789). As an adjective by 1843.
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protectionism
n.
1846, from protectionist + -ism.
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