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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protectorate \Pro*tect"or*ate\, n. [Cf. F. protectorat.]
Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.
The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s in reference to the government by the Cromwells; 1795 as "occupied territory of another nation," from protector + -ate (1). Meaning "state or territory (usually tribal) placed under the protection of a major power" is from 1860.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. 2 The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs but the protected state retains its nominal sovereignty. 3 An autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity.
WordNet
n. a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty [syn: associated state]
Wikipedia
A protectorate, in its inception adopted by modern international law, is a dependent territory that has been granted local autonomy and some independence while still retaining the suzerainty of a greater sovereign state. In exchange for this, the protectorate usually accepts specified obligations, which may vary greatly, depending on the real nature of their relationship. Therefore, a protectorate remains an autonomous part of a sovereign state. They are different from colonies as they have local rulers and people ruling over the territory and experience rare cases of immigration of settlers from the country it has suzerainty of. However, a state which remains under the protection of another state but still retains independence is known as a protected state and is different from protectorates.
Usage examples of "protectorate".
Naivasha and Kisumu, which adjoin the Victoria Nyanza, formed at first the eastern province of Uganda, but were transferred to the East Africa protectorate on the 1st of April 1902.
They were the only men and women in the whole of the city, the whole of the Protectorate, who were legally entitled to bear weapons that killed from a distance.
There were between sixty and seventy people in the large room, what was generally considered to be the cream of Protectorate society.
Where all but a scattered few of the human race were penned up in the three giant cities that constituted the Protectorate, Kraymon wandered at will across the outlands.
When a wealthy or powerful man was suspected of major crimes against the Protectorate, it was a common practice to also round up his immediate family.
Thus, besides the Nyasaland Protectorate and North Eastern Rhodesia, part of North Western Rhodesia is included, and for the whole of this region British Central Africa is the most convenient designation.
The vegetable product through which this protectorate first attracted trade was coffee, the export of which, however, has passed through very disheartening fluctuations.
The total native population of all British Central Africa is about 2,000,000, that of the Nyasaland Protectorate being officially estimated in 1907 at 927,355.
Of Europeans the protectorate possesses about 600 to 700 settlers, including some 100 officials.
The government capital of the protectorate, however, is Zomba, at the base of the mountain of that name.
In 1904 the administration of the protectorate, originally directed by the foreign office, was transferred to the colonial office.
In 1907, on the change in the title of the protectorate, the designation of the chief official was altered from commissioner to governor, and executive and legislative councils were established.
Expenditure in excess of revenue is met by grants in aid from the imperial exchequer, so far as the Nyasaland Protectorate is concerned.
The protectorate government maintains three gunboats on Lake Nyasa, and the British South Africa Company an armed steamer on Lake Tanganyika.
It is known as the Goro Escarpment, and at its eastern end it forms the boundary between the protectorate and Abyssinia.