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protectee|prəʊtɛkˈtiː|
[f. protect v. + -ee.]
One who is under protection. spec. a. A protégé. †b. In 16–17th c., An Irishman who had accepted the protection of the English government (obs.). c. Pol. Econ. A manufacturer or merchant whose trade is protected.
1602in Moryson Itin. (1617) ii. 238 By prey-beeues gotten from the Rebels, and good numbers had of the protectees,..we haue vsed a great kind of sparing of the victuals in the store. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. xiii. (1810) 147 If the Protectees had meant in their hearts as they professed with their tongues. 1807W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. II. 198 Your protectee, White, was clerk to my cousin. 1894J. S. Morton in Forum (U.S.) June, Protection..compels him [the farmer] to be always the chained customer of the protectee. |