protectiveness

protective | American Dictionary

protective
adjective
us/prəˈtek·tɪv/
able to keep someone or something safe from injury or damage:
Firefighters wear protective clothing to reduce the risk of being burned.
She is fiercely protective of her family.

protective | Business English

protective
adjective
uk /prəˈtektɪv/us
giving protection against a disease, injury, damage, or loss:
Three major drug companies are working to develop protective vaccines.
protective clothing/equipment/gear
protective gloves/masks/suits
ECONOMICS
intended to help a country's trade or industry:
If protective barriers disappeared overnight, the country's infant car industry could be wiped out.

Examples of protective

protective
As it stands at present, this new directive will apply to all the groups of biocidal products not covered by the plant protectives directive.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Firstly, the proposed directive, which closely follows the plant protectives directive, does not do justice to the particular position of biocidal products.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
A longitudinal study of parenting as a protective factor for children of alcoholics.
The second is to consider the possible mechanisms that are at play in this protective effect.
What this protective attribute is relates to the second question, that of what mechanisms underlie the protective effect.
In this study, education beyond primary school had a protective effect against mortality.
Continuing treatment appears to have a protective effect against relapse.
Indeed, these characteristics in retired people can also be seen as a protective shield with regard to their entry into retired life.
Numerous substances are found in nature and in the body that function as protective agents against oxygen-free radicals.
There are no confirmed findings demonstrating the protective effects of high consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables against this form of cancer.
However, they provide some support that a high intake of vegetables, but not fruit, has some protective effects.
There are no confirmed findings demonstrating the protective effects of a particular antioxidant.
The studies that investigated the effects of fruits and vegetables have demonstrated some protective effects.
A number of protective mechanisms associated with seed desiccation tolerance have been identified through studies on acquisition and loss of desiccation tolerance in orthodox seeds.
Additionally, in desiccation-sensitive seeds, protective antioxidant systems may also fail.
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