Protectionism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The advocacy, system, or theory of protecting domestic producers by impeding or limiting, as by tariffs or quotas, the importation of foreign goods and services.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A policy of protecting the domestic producers of a product by imposing tariffs, quotas or other barriers on imports.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See protection, 4.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The doctrine of the protectionists; the system of protection. See protection, 4.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    economic policy   
    Variant
    protection   
    Hyponym
    trade barrier    import barrier   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    perfectionism   
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