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How to pronounce “protectorate”
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Pronunciation guide for protectorate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of protectorate with real speech in context.
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- Vietnamese Food Any Day
And the Chinese had considered Vietnam a colonial protectorate
- Definition summary
- (UK, historical) Government by a protector; especially, The Protectorate: government of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1653 and 1659 under the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, later his son Richard Cromwell.
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How to pronounce protectorate
Vietnamese Food Any Day
And the Chinese had considered Vietnam a colonial protectorate
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “protectorate”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (UK, historical) Government by a protector; especially, The Protectorate: government of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1653 and 1659 under the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, later his son Richard Cromwell.
- (UK, historical) The office or position of the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
- The authority assumed by a state over another state deemed inferior or dependent, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs but the protected state retains its nominal sovereignty.
- An autonomous state under protectorate.
- The office or position of protector (sense 5).
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