protectorate / prəˈtɛk tər ɪt /

⚽高中词汇保护国保卫国护国保护地

protectorate 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls.
  2. a state or territory so protected.
  3. the office or position, or the term of office, of a protector.
  4. the government of a protector.
  5. English History. the period during which Oliver and Richard Cromwell held the title of Lord Protector, sometimes extended to include the period of the restoration of the Rump Parliament.

protectorate 近义词

protectorate

等同于 satellite

protectorate

等同于 colony

更多protectorate例句

  1. They wanted independence or, barring that, an American-administered protectorate.
  2. The British ruled it as a protectorate from 1868 until 1968 and dominated the security services for decades afterward.
  3. As an 11-year-old growing up in Somaliland, then a British protectorate, Edna Adan Ismail had a powerful dream.
  4. She felt the relationship to be a true one, in contradistinction to the more usual form of protectorate of woman to child.
  5. The government capital of the protectorate, however, is Zomba, at the base of the mountain of that name.
  6. In 1904 the administration of the protectorate, originally directed by the foreign office, was transferred to the colonial office.
  7. It is known as the Goro Escarpment, and at its eastern end it forms the boundary between the protectorate and Abyssinia.
  8. There is a police force of about 2000 men, and two battalions of the King's African Rifles are stationed in the protectorate.