English-Dutch translations for protectorate

• protectoraat
  Het was een protectoraat en het zal een protectoraat blijven. It was a protectorate and it will remain a protectorate.
  Kosovo wordt een protectoraat van de Unie. Kosovo will be a protectorate of the Union.
  Irak mag geen Amerikaans protectoraat worden. Iraq must not become an American protectorate.

Definition of protectorate

• Government by a protector; especially, the government of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Oliver Cromwell
• An autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity

Examples

• Egypt became a British protectorate in 1914

Related words

• protector
• gastroprotector
• Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
• lord protector
• pocket protector
• athletic protector
• sheet protector
• surge protector
• earthquake protector