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n. A relationship of protection and partial control assumed by a superior power over a dependent country or region.

n. The protected country or region.

n. The government, office, or term of a protector.

n. The government of England under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ruling as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.

n. Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.

n. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.

n. An autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity.

n. Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.

n. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.

n. Government by a protector; also, the rank or position of a protector, or the period of his rule: specifically [capitalized] used with reference to the period in English history during which Oliver and Richard Cromwell held the title of Lord Protector.

n. A relation assumed by a strong nation toward a weak one, whereby the former protects the latter from hostile invasion or dictation, and interferes more or less in its domestic concerns.

n. a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty

"In East Timor, he set up a highly effective “transitional administration”—yet another euphemism for protectorate—that shepherded the troubled region through exemplary elections to independence and a seat of its own in the UN for the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, the first newborn state of the twenty-first century."

territory    territorial dominion    district    dominion   

directorate    electorate    inspectorate   

hegemony    officialdom    towns    attaché    mammae