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protectionism

/pruh-tek-shuh-niz-uhm/US // prəˈtɛk ʃəˌnɪz əm //

保护主义,贸易保护主义,保卫主义,掩护主义

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
    • : any program, policy, or system of laws that seeks to provide protection for property owners, wildlife, the environment, etc.

Examples

  • Geopolitical issues like protectionism make it harder to get the right materials delivered for products, and the lockdowns imposed during the pandemic have caused further supply chain issues.

  • This is despite a global backdrop of protectionism and the politicization of development institutions investing in emerging markets.

  • Rigidity, total ownership of processes and ideas, unwillingness to change once a plan is in place, and protectionism are all red flags.

  • In early March, it became apparent that many China-made supplies and equipment needed to control and treat infections were subject to tariffs, giving rise to attacks on protectionism as a public health threat.

  • Guaranteed, short-term protectionism is a compassionate temptation that will rob us of long-term, society-altering breakthroughs.

  • Apart from anything else, protectionism would be ruinous to developing countries.

  • Protectionism for the industrial trade unions, then still important.

  • And it achieves that end without stooping toward protectionism sops to special interests.

  • In times of economic crisis, xenophobia blooms along with political conflict, protectionism and, in some places, racism.

  • Protectionism, and the attitude of which it was born and which it bred in turn, was still firmly entrenched in both countries.

  • Realism and idealism contradict each other more absolutely than protectionism and free-trade.

  • A comparison between the theory and the actual practice of protectionism in the United States.

  • Protectionism here again pleads the excuse of universal delusion, and in no case is the excuse more needed.

  • And now the stones of which my protectionism was built up began to get uncomfortably loose.