English-Spanish translations for protector

• protector
  No necesitan personas que se erijan en protectores, mucho menos a la UE. They do not need self-appointed protectors, least of all the EU.
  Era un protectorado y continuará siéndolo. It was a protectorate and it will remain a protectorate.
  ¿Por qué los granjeros no acogen a los inspectores y los ven como protectores de sus negocios? Why do farmers not welcome inspectors in, seeing them as protectors of their businesses?
• protectora
  Europa tiene que desempeñar la función de protectora en el mundo globalizado actual. Europe has to play the role of protector in today's globalised world.
  La idea de convertir a Europa en la protectora de las mujeres debe dejar de ponernos tan nerviosos. We must stop being so nervous of the idea of making Europe the protector of women.
• valedor

Definition of protector

• Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative
• A device or mechanism which is designed to protect
• A state or other subject under international law, exercising a protectorate over another subject in international law
• A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc

Related words

• Lord Protector