protectorate
Other forms: protectorates
A protectorate is a state or country that's protected by a larger, stronger one. Protectorate is another word for “protected state.”
Protectorates are weak territories protected and partly controlled by stronger ones. A country defends its protectorate, but it doesn't own it, and it doesn't meddle with the protectorate's internal affairs. A protectorate is in a more equal relationship with its mother country than a colony. The more powerful country may help the protectorate with economic issues as well as defense. With a capital p, Protectorate refers to a specific government that led England in the 1600s.
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a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treatysynonyms: associated statetype of:district, dominion, territorial dominion, territorya region marked off for administrative or other purposes
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