Protectionism

Definition

protection /prǝ'tekʃn/ n ၁။ ~ (for sb) (against sth) (က) [U] ကာကြယ္မႈ။ Use a suncream that gives adequate protection against harmful ultraviolet rays. ❍ The union is campaigning for greater protection (for staff) against unfair dismissal. (ခ) [C] အကာအကြယ္။ legal protections for unions ❍ consumer protections. ၂။ [U] (အေကာက္ခြန္တိုး၍ ျပည္ပယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္မႈမွ) ကာကြယ္ေပးမႈ။ provide protection for the car industry by imposing import duties on foreign goods. ၃။ [U] လူဆိုးသူဆိုးရန္မွ ကင္းလြတ္ခြင့္ရေရးအတြက္ ဆိုင္ရွင္၊ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္တို႔က ဆက္ေၾကး ေပးရေသာ စနစ္။ paying protection money ❍ The gang were running protection rackets in all the big cities. ❏ protectionism /-ʃǝnÇzǝm/ n [U] ျပည္တြင္း လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို ျပည္ပယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္မႈမွ ကာကြယ္ေပးထားျခင္း။ ယင္းဝါဒ။ increase agricultural/ industrial protectionism. ❏ protectionist /-ʃǝnÇst/ adj ျပည္တြင္းလုပ္ငန္း ကာကြယ္ ေရး။ protectionist measures/ policies ❍ a protectionist government.

Examples

1. [protection of] : The protection of intellectual property rights
2. [protection against] : A healthy diet should provide protection against disease.
3. [protection from] : The company filed for court protection from its creditors.
4. Protection in case of an accident