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/prətˈɛktɪv tˈɛrəf/ Listen

adjective

Protective adj. Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence."

Protective coloring (Zool.), coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry.

Protective tariff (Polit. Econ.), a tariff designed to secure protection (see Protection, 4.), as distinguished from a tariff designed to raise revenue. See Tariff, and Protection, 4.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... ideas and ideals, are much more dependent upon thinking and study. But, as in the case of the Eskimo, this thinking and study arises out of actual conditions, and from specific wants. It may be that we must contrive ways of earning more money; or that the arguments for protective tariff seem too inconsistent for comfort; or that the reports about some of our friends alarm us. The occasions that call forth thought are infinite in number and kind. But the essential fact is that study does not normally take place except under the stimulus or spur of particular conditions, and of ...

— How To Study and Teaching How To Study • F. M. McMurry