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What is a protectorate?

What is a protectorate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Government by a protector; especially, the government of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Oliver Cromwell.
  2. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs but the protected state retains its nominal sovereignty.
  3. An autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity.
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If Tibet were not part of China, it would be a protectorate of U. S. imperialism, a base for counterrevolution throughout China.
German efforts to resupply the beleaguered protectorate in east Africa were audacious.
The Southern Sotho's fought gallantly for their land before their incorporation into the British protectorate.
It is these good intentions that enable educators to act as protectors within the structure of a protectorate.
She concluded this protectorate status in 1970 and joined the Commonwealth of Nations in the same year.
I fear that it will operate as a protectorate, rather than as an independent state.

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