protectorate

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (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.
2. (UK, historical) The office or position of the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
3. 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.
4. An autonomous state under protectorate.
5. The office or position of protector (sense 5).

Concepten

protectoraat

Synoniemen

colony

dominion

associated state

protectorship

satellite

📡

vassal state

mandate

dependency

buffer state

Vertalingen

protectorat

protectorado

protetorado

Protektorat

protettorato

protectorat

hamilik

Schirmherrschaft

المحمية

kral vekilliği

محمي

Schutzgebiet

assoziierter Staat

αντιβασιλεία

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/pɹəˈtɛktəɹɪt/

Etymologie (Engels)

From protector + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a system ruled by people of such office).