protected

protect | American Dictionary

protect
verb[ T ]
us/prəˈtekt/
to keep someone or something safe from injury, damage, or loss:
He says he was protecting his home and family.
A citizens’ group worked to protect forest areas.

protect | Business English

protect
verb
uk /prəˈtekt/us
[ I or T ]
to keep someone or something safe from injury, damage, or loss:
protect sb/sth from sthThey produce a self-adhesive plastic cover designed to protect CDs from scratches.
protect sb/sth against sthThe company has been ordered to take corrective action to protect consumers against high-pressure sales tactics.
protect against sthThe investment does not insure profits or protect against losses in a declining market.
protect sb's interests/investments/rightsThe agreement obliges WTO Members to protect the rights, including copyrights and trademarks, of citizens of all other Members.
This material is protected by copyright.
[ T ] ECONOMICS
if a government protects part of its country's trade or industry, it helps it by taxing goods from other countries or limiting the amount of goods that can be imported:
Import barriers protected the fledgling enterprises.
a protected industry/market
[ I or T ] INSURANCE
to provide someone with insurance against injury, damage, or loss:
Workers should take out insurance, whether to cover themselves against a particular illness or to protect their income.
protect against sthLife annuities protect against the risk of people outliving their savings.

Examples of protect

protect
Should older people be protected from bad choices ?
A critic of the data protection regime might note that the legislation protects debtors with more force than it does creditors.
The precursor to having one's integrity protected (embodied by the requirement of one's consent) is the capacity to exercise will, make choices, and communicate desires.
A clause protected with a guard matches only if both the pattern and the guard are satisfied.
Being "fair" was feasible for such owners if the universal enforcement of the union contract protected them from non-union competition.
Thus, it is important that explicit processes be developed to allow confidential data to be used, while protecting its confidentiality.
There is an increasing need for assessments of the status of monkey populations both within and outside protected areas.
Actual choices are relevant not to the idea of the right but rather to its direction of exercise with respect to the protected domain.
The users of the water invested the communal power with the duty of protecting them against usurpers' efforts to divert the water.
In summary, we have demonstrated that brimonidine is effective in protecting against ischemic retinal injury and in preserving retinal function.
Thirty-nine young colonies (32 unprotected and seven protected) were monitored for survival at six sites.
Transmission from these chronic phase rabbits recruits susceptibles into the chronic phase, protecting them from acute infection.
Indeed, protected by the colonial settlement, their effective powers over their own subjects often increased, as did their possibilities of accumulating wealth.
Now, the protective nature of duties does not prevent them from being comparative: the harm protected against may be essentially comparative.
Reproductive privacy can be protected while having a generally effective policy that prohibits cloning except in cases of infertility.
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