protectorate: meaning and definitions

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What is protectorate?

What is protectorate?

  • A relationship of protection and partial control assumed by a superior power over a dependent country or region.
  • The protected country or region.
  • The government, office, or term of a protector.
  • The government of England under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ruling as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.

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