Crossword clues for protectionist
protectionist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protectionist \Pro*tec"tion*ist\, n. (Polit. Econ.) One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in the economics sense, 1841, from French protectionniste (in political economy sense, protection is attested from 1789). As an adjective by 1843.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to protectionism, or an advocate thereof. n. Someone who believes in protecting domestic producers by impeding or limiting the importation of foreign goods and services via actions taken by government.
WordNet
n. an advocate of protectionism
Wikipedia
A protectionist is someone who upholds the economic policy of restraining trade between states.
Protectionist may also refer to:
- Australian Protectionist Party, a current Australian political party
- Liberal Protectionist, a Canadian political party
- Protectionist Party, a historical Australian political party
- Protectionist Party (Sweden), a Swedish political party
- Protectionist (horse), winner of the 2014 Melbourne Cup
Protectionist (foaled 2010) is a Thoroughbred racehorse bred and trained in Germany. He was bred by Christoph Berglar, and owned by Berglar in conjunction with an Australian syndicate. Protectionist was the winner of the 2014 Melbourne Cup, ridden by Ryan Moore and trained by , and became the first German-trained horse to win the race.
Usage examples of "protectionist".
Will not every Free-Trader put a copy of the book into the hands of his Protectionist friends?
I had almost said the demands, of the protectionist school, that it deserves a special discussion.
Consequently, just as you have made yourself a protectionist, I will make myself a socialist.
Villiers severely chastised the protectionist champion, showing how unscrupulously he played the part of a plagiarist even in the sophisms he employed.
This address was one of the most sturdy pronouncements of protectionist opinion which the discussions of the day brought forth.
Hence a protectionist agitation pervaded the country, unsettling the minds of the farmers, inspiring false hopes, irritating the trading classes, producing counter agitation, and by all these means inflicting injury upon the country.
The debate was a renewal, under another form, of the protectionist controversy.
The riot occurred on the 28th of May, and the strong popular hostility evinced, had its influence in parliament in emboldening the hostile eloquence of the free-traders, and damped the ardour of the protectionist gatherings in the coming autumn.
The protectionist party determined to oppose the government on every measure which afforded a chance, by small defeat, of weakening its influence over the house and the country.
This gave satisfaction to the majority, but exasperated the protectionist party, which attempted to defeat the government on the question of the income tax, by direct resolutions moved by Mr.
In connection with the protectionist agitation, the navigation laws, and their repeal, held an angry prominence.
It was rendered so by the character of the debates both on home and foreign questions, by the rivalry of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell, for the leadership of the whig party, the changes of ministry, and the last effort of the tory and protectionist party to gain ascendancy.
As this was only another mode of reenacting protectionist laws, and one which was especially offensive to all the community not inheriting land, it was impossible for Lord Palmerston to accept office with Lord Derby, even if their political differences were less.
Gladstone, but his repugnance to act with Disraeli personally, and his opposition to the protectionist schemes of both that minister and Lord Derby, rendered all negotiations unsuccessful.
The ministry, therefore, became a pure tory and protectionist cabinet, except so far as Lord Stanley was concerned, whose opinions were supposed to be liberal, although connected with the ministry by the influence of his father.