Definitions for Protection

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Protection pro·tec·tion

Spelling: [pruh-tek-shuh n]

IPA: /prəˈtɛk ʃən/

Protection is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 546 anagrams from letters in Protection (ceinooprtt).

Definitions for Protection

noun

1. the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
2. a thing, person, or group that protects:
3. patronage.
4. Insurance. coverage (def 1).
5. Informal. money paid to racketeers for a guarantee against threatened violence. bribe money paid to the police, politicians, or other authorities for overlooking criminal activity.
6. Economics. protectionism.
7. a document that assures safety from harm, delay, or the like, for the person, persons, or property specified in it.
8. Archaic. a document given by the U.S. customs authorities to a sailor traveling abroad certifying that the holder is a citizen of the U.S.

Origin of Protection

1275-1325; Middle English proteccio(u)n Late Latin prōtēctiōn- (stem of prōtēctiō) a covering in front. See protect, -ion

Examples for Protection

The protection will last as long as Winston can still fling the ball 50 yards downfield to a streaking wide receiver.

But the friends of protection did not leave the Premier without opposition.

There is, in fact, a distinction in the level of protection.

Why are “threats,” unlike other scary speech, outside the protection of the First Amendment?

I knew how useless it was, and I remembered that he himself had armed me for my protection.

Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.

protection grew fierce, and fanned the burning sense of wrong.

But as a lawyer, she uses law to contribute to their protection.

I want you, moreover, to advocate our American doctrine of protection.

Those who were initiated were supposed to be peculiarly under the protection of the gods.