protect
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
protect/prəˈtekt/
▶verb
- 1 keep safe from harm or injury.
■ (often as adj. protected) aim to preserve (a threatened plant or animal species) by legislating against collecting or hunting.
- 2 Economics shield (a domestic industry) from competition by imposing import duties on foreign goods.
- 3 provide funds to meet (a bill of exchange or commercial draft).
– derivatives
protectable adjective.
protectable adjective.
– origin ME: from L. protect-, protegere ‘cover in front’.
'protect' also found in these Oxford entries:
airbag
- antimacassar
- antiserum
- armour
- bandage
- barrier cream
- beetle
- biosecurity
- blanking plate
- body armour
- bodyguard
- breakwater
- bull bar
- carbaryl
- case
- cast
- Chamber of Commerce
- chaps
- cherish
- condom
- conserve
- cosset
- cover
- cover crop
- coverslip
- crash helmet
- crashworthiness
- defend
- defensive
- defilade
- dig
- do-rag
- dressing
- dress shield
- dump
- dust sheet
- earmuffs
- embank
- eyepatch
- eyeshade
- fence
- fender
- fingerstall
- firewall
- fixative
- forfend
- gamekeeper
- guard
- guardian angel
- gumshield
