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protectorate
[pruh-tek-ter-it]
noun
the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls.
a state or territory so protected.
the office or position, or the term of office, of a protector.
the government of a protector.
(initial capital letter), the period (1653–59) during which Oliver and Richard Cromwell held the title of Lord Protector, sometimes extended to include the period of the restoration of the Rump Parliament (1659–60).
protectorate
/ prəˈtɛktərɪt /
noun
a territory largely controlled by but not annexed to a stronger state
the relation of a protecting state to its protected territory
the office or period of office of a protector
protectorate
A relationship between a strong sovereign nation and a weak nation or area not recognized as a nation. Once the strong nation has established a protectorate over a weak nation, it can control the latter's affairs.
Word History and Origins
Origin of protectorate1
Example Sentences
One more reason to which he alludes: The Jewish state serves as the protectorate of several historical and biblical Christian sites that millions of pilgrims visit each year.
Mr. Mamdani, a professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University, is himself a Ugandan Asian, the term used to describe people from British India who had settled in the British protectorate of Uganda.
The French-speaking part of the former German protectorate, carved up between France and Britain after World War I, gained independence in 1960, joined a year later by British Cameroon.
In the winter of 1956, The Times correspondent David Holden arrived on the island of Bahrain, then still a British protectorate.
“We are neither a protectorate nor a colony of any foreign nation.”
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