📖 Определения и значения для слова protect
📒 to make sure that somebody/something is not harmed, injured, damaged, etc.
- protect somebody/something/yourself to protect children/citizens/civilians/consumers/workers
- Our aim is to protect the jobs of our members.
- the section of the treaty that protects the rights of employees
📒 to introduce laws that make it illegal to kill, harm or damage a particular animal, area of land, building, etc.
- a protected area/species
- the need to protect the environment
- to be protected by something Polar bears have been protected by law in Norway since 1973.
📒 to help an industry in your own country by taxing goods from other countries so that there is less competition
- protected markets
- The Far Eastern markets are heavily protected.
- We must take steps to protect the UK as a manufacturing base.
📒 to provide somebody/something with insurance against fire, injury, damage, etc.
- Many policies do not protect you against personal injury.
📒 to limit access to data, a web page, etc., for example by using passwords or encryption (= special codes)
- Security products are designed to protect information from unauthorized access.
- All these pages are password-protected.