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protected, ppl. a.
[f. protect v. + -ed.]
a. That enjoys protection; receiving legal immunity or exemption.
1836Wheaton Elem. Internat. Law I. ii. 63 The sovereignty of the inferior ally or protected state remains, though limited and qualified by the stipulations of the treaties of alliance and protection. 1872Bagehot Physics & Pol. (1876) 82 This principle explains..why the ‘protected’ regions of the world..are of necessity backward. 1878H. H. Gibbs Ombre 22 He keeps only the trumps and perhaps the Kings or at most a protected Queen. 1884Sir T. Symonds in Pall Mall G. 25 Sept. 1/2 Twenty-three battle ships..(of which four are protected cruisers). 1885Athenæum 3 Oct. 433/3 Toul [was]..a protected state dependent upon France. 1888Nation (N.Y.) 6 Dec. 454/1 Whatever increased profits our manufacturers of ‘protected’ articles get..must come from other classes..the consumers of their products. 1900[see protect v. 4 b]. 1926Brit. Gaz. 12 May 2/6 The London Central Meat Market, at Smithfield, is now a protected area, and barriers have been drawn across all the approaches. 1942Ann. Reg. 1941 27 Now they [sc. men above the reservation age] were to be reserved only if engaged on what was called ‘protected work’, i.e. work which the Government recognised as of national importance. 1944Manpower (Ministry of Information) 112 Firms were divided into ‘protected’ and ‘unprotected’ establishments, according to the urgency of the work they were doing. 1956J. C. Swayne Conc. Gloss. Geogr. Terms 114 Protected state, a territory, e.g. Brunei, Kuwait, under a ruler who receives the protection of another state. The protecting state controls foreign affairs, but has no jurisdiction over internal matters. 1968‘C. Aird’ Henrietta Who? vii. 64 You're a protected tenant... No one can make you leave. 1975‘J. Bell’ Victim i. 12, I took in my second lot of tenants. Protected tenure. 1978Country Life 20 July 148/3 Jersey has no statutory list of protected buildings as has existed in Britain for the last three decades.
b. Of a species whose survival is threatened: affected by laws preventing collecting, hunting, etc.
1930J. S. Huxley Bird-Watching & Bird Behaviour vi. 115 The National Trust and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds..are..paying watchers to see that protected birds are not shot or robbed of their eggs. 1936Discovery Feb. 34/2 Any local authority may now, on application to the Ministry [of Agriculture] take the bird [sc. the little owl] off the protected list. 1959E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Isles I. 156 In an effort not to bring about its [sc. the Great Silver Beetle's] total destruction, naturalists refrain from publishing records regarding its distribution... It should be treated as a ‘protected’ species and left alone. 1976Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 798/1 In most cases it is better to leave these plants to live where they are native and protected than to move them to gardens. 1978Vole Dec. 18/1 It seemed like every damn animal on this planet should be a protected species. |