protection

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence

   Every store in the neighborhood had to pay them protection.

2. 2
   noun

   the activity of protecting someone or something

   the witnesses demanded police protection

3. 3
   noun

   in trade, the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition

   They made trade protection a plank in the party platform.

4. 4
   noun

   a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury

   they had no protection from the fallout

5. 5
   noun

   the condition of being protected

   they were huddled together for protection

6. 6
   noun

   The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.

   Raincoats give protection from rain.

7. 7
   noun

   kindly endorsement and guidance

8. 8
   noun

   defense against financial failure

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Late Latin pro- Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-der. Proto-Italic *tegō Late Latin tegō Late Latin prōtegō Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Late Latin -tiō Late Latin prōtēctiōder. Old Frenchbor. Middle English English protection From Middle English, from Old French, from stem of Late Latin prōtectiō (“a covering over”), from Latin prōtēctus, perfect passive participle of prōtegere (“to pr…