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Protections
- noun - a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury; "they had no protection from the fallout"; "wax provided protection for the floors"
- defense against financial failure; financial independence; "his pension gave him security in his old age"; "insurance provided protection against loss of wages due to illness"
- kindly endorsement and guidance; "the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council"
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence; "every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection"
- the activity of protecting someone or something; "the witnesses demanded police protection"
- the condition of being protected; "they were huddled together for protection"; "he enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home"
- the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition; "he made trade protection a plank in the party platform"
Protectoral
- - Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.
Protocercal
- - Having a caudal fin extending around the end of the vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of fishes; diphycercal.
Protococcus
- - A genus of minute unicellular algProtococcus nivalis).
Protocolist
- - One who draughts protocols.
Protoctista
- noun - in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct from plants and animals
Protoctists
- noun - any of the unicellular protists
Provocateur
- noun - a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts
Provocation
- noun - needed encouragement; "the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation"
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
Provocative
- adjective - exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"
- serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope