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The policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition
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protectionism
Word definitions for protectionism in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, from protectionist + -ism .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context politics economics English) A system or policy of protecting the domestic producers of a product from foreign competition by imposing tariffs, quotas, duties or other barriers on importations.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the relative strength of scale economies and political protectionism varies greatly between different communications fields. ▪ But those of us who understand history must shudder at his adulation of the false gods of isolationism ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protectionism \Pro*tec"tion*ism\, n. (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection , 4.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In economics, protectionism is the economic policy of restraining trade between countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, restrictive quotas , and a variety of other government regulations designed to allow (according to proponents) fair ...
Usage examples of protectionism.
Or even by demagogic but counterproductive measures voted through by the assemblies -- debt repudiation, protectionism, hyperinflation, that sort of thing.
They tried to fight back with talk of protectionism and deficit financing, but they were no match for Jon-Tom musically.
This protectionism hinders the spread of literacy, deprives the masses of much needed knowledge, discriminates against the poor, and, ultimately, undermines democracy - believes Hart.
His extreme protectionism repelled not only the Democrats but the tariff reformers who had played an important part in the organization of the Liberal Republican party.
And providing we all understand the differences between protectionism and simple common sense.
But the strangling protectionism and isolationism that has characterized Ideiren foreign and trade policy since the Treaty of Mypril will only, if it continues, prevent Ideire from joining the global community, and from taking its place among the nations of the world.
I was asked whether I was for free trade, protectionism, or something in between.
They had no patience with protectionism, found unions troublesome, and were not particularly sympathetic to those whose lives were upended by the movements of global capital.
Clearly our large trade deficit with Japan was due in part to protectionism.