Word Finder - protection

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The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.

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Raincoats give protection from rain.

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The state of being safe.

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A means of keeping or remaining safe.

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A means, such as a condom, of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.

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Coverage.

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Immunity from harm, obtained by illegal payments, as bribery or extortion.

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A document serving as a guarantee against harm or interference; a passport.

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Restrictions on foreign competitors which limit their ability to compete with domestic producers of goods or services.

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An instance of a security token associated with a resource (such as a file).

She was under the protection of the Others.

It's for protection from all the wild animals.

Maybe he's in some witness protection program.

Previously, the child was under the protection of her mother.

Understanding they were for Elisabeth's protection comforted him.

Domestic protection fell to PMF.

Besides, it will offer better protection than the others.

This sort of thing is usually done via the witness protection program but I once heard of a situation where fake papers were assembled independent of any government agency.

Of course, privacy protection will be key.

It wasn't the brightest thing to walk all the way out to that shed without any protection after seeing the bear last night, either.

It's important whatever garments you wear, that you get good protection against the elements.

For my own part, I should not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the State.

Large shade trees and bamboo cabanas provided seating and protection from the sun.

Charles took Florence and the Medici family under his protection and promised to punish all enemies of the Catholic faith.

Of course, she was going to be a pet, but a pet that size would also provide protection to a degree.

I'm just wondering if we should tell them, for their own protection.

She released his neck and snuggled in the protection of his arms.

In the twenty years since she took him in, she was the only one to offer him protection and respect.

On the 7th of May 1451 Waynflete, from "le peynted chambre" in his manor house at Southwark, asserting that his bishopric was canonically obtained and that he laboured under no disqualification, but feared some grievous attempt against himself and his see, appealed to the protection of the pope.

He was forced to abandon all attempts at reconquest, but proposed to decide the question by single combat between himself and Peter, to take place at Bordeaux under English protection.

I'd say you have few choices; get protection, get a gun or head for the hills.

We do not smell like other wolves for protection.

I wasn't thinking about protection.

Calling at Talamone to embark arms and money, he reached Marsala on the 11th of May, and landed under the protection of the British vessels "Intrepid" and "Argus."

It cannot be grown in the open air in Britain, as it requires protection from frost, and is more tender than the Brazilian pine.

Delfzyl, which was formerly an important fortress for the protection of the ancient sluices on the little river Delf (hence its name), has greatly benefited by the construction of the Ems (Eems) shipcanal connecting it with Groningen, and has a good harbour with a considerable import trade in wood.

He believes the United States to be a unified republic, a sovereign nation; and not a federation of independent states united only for mutual benefit and protection.

That I, the daughter of Prince Nicholas Bolkonski, asked General Rameau for protection and accepted his favor!

Edmund Burke had taken the subject races of India under the protection of his eloquence.

The telegraph companies proposed to effect an amalgamation so as to enable the services to be consolidated and extended, and they proposed to submit to various conditions for the protection of the public, such as maximum rates and limitation of dividends, with the provision that new issues of capital should be offered by auction, but public opinion was averse to the proposal.

This pertinacity engendered a belief in France that Italy was about to undertake in Tunisia a more aggressive policy than necessary for the protection of her commercial interests.

Soon after the accession of Nero, Vologaeses (Vologasus), king of Parthia, overran Armenia, drove out Rhadamistus, who was under the protection of the Romans, and set his own brother Tiridates on the throne.

Under his sons justice was equally, perhaps more, costly, while adequate protection was much harder to obtain.

When, however, he was again attacked by Charles Martel, the Saracens renewed their ravages, and Odo was defeated near Bordeaux; he was compelled to crave protection from Charles, who took up this struggle and gained his momentous victory at Poitiers in 732.

Under their protection, and favoured by its site, the city rapidly grew in wealth and population, the zenith of its power and prosperity being reached between the 13th and 15th centuries, when it was the emporium of the trade of Germany and the Low Countries, the centre of a great cloth industry, and could put some 20,000 armed citizens into the field.

The manor was granted by King Offa to the bishopric of Worcester; and it was under the protection of the bishops of Worcester, who were granting them privileges as early as the reign of Richard I., that the inhabitants of the town assumed burghal rights at an early date.

The sporogonium of the liverworts is in the simpler forms simply a spore-capstile with arrangements for the development, protection and distribution of the spores.

After proclaiming his intention of conferring on his subjects the blessings of peace, he joined in 1798 an Anglo-Austrian coalition against France; but when Austria paid more attention to her own interests than to the interests of monarchical institutions in general, and when England did not respect the independence of Malta, which he had taken under his protection, he succumbed to the artful blandishments of Napoleon and formed with him a plan for ruining the British empire by the conquest of India.

Here came under the protection of the peace of God the tribes and clans which otherwise lived apart from one another and only knew peace and security within their own frontiers."

The seeds are sown in April, and come up in three or four weeks; the plants require protection from frost during their first winter.

Frederick the Great of Prussia, when he seized Silesia, extended his protection to those who remained in that province.

A phœbe soon built in my shed, and a robin for protection in a pine which grew against the house.

It also told me he was willing to make a sacrifice for her protection.

If you come under attack, you'll need an alternate identity... something similar to witness protection.

He wanted to warn the young man to wear a bulletproof vest and keep his hands in his lap for protection.

An unbound Immortal.s mate had no protection from demon or Immortal Code.

She turned to Ryland, who looked like he wanted to volunteer for disappearance in the witness protection program.

Elisabeth sighed, "Samantha thinks you may be right about the whole protection thing."

I just told her about the soul-mate thing, and protection.

If you … when you find her, I'm assigning you as her personal protection and sending you both somewhere safe.