protectedadj.
/prəˈtɛktᵻd/, U.S. /prəˈtɛktəd/ 1. That enjoys protection (in various senses); shielded or defended from attack, danger, damage, etc.; receiving legal immunity or exemption.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [adjective] > protected or defended
munite?1440
well-fenced?1510
fortified1538
defended?1572
protected1599
fortressed1895
society > law > legal capacity > [adjective] > having legal immunity
protected1942
1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. 23/2 Amparádo, protected, defended.
1608 H. Fitzsimon Replie M. Riders Rescript 3 in Catholike Confut. Who then must be the builders, vpon the sands? all they that are not in the forsaid Church, that is fownded vpon the protected rock of Rome.
1643 P. Darcy Argument of 1641 10 Whether the testimony or evidence of Rebels, Traytors, protected theeves..be good evidence in law?
1713 Memorable Fall Chloe's P—s Pot 4 Protected Mice, The Race exiguous..Their Mansions quit.
1736 J. Thomson Britain: 4th Pt. Liberty 734 As when, with Alfred, from the wilds she came To polic'd cities and protected plains.
1816 H. Downing Mary ix. 111 On thy thrice-favour'd, thy protected Isle, Honour and Genius, and the Muses smile.
1836 H. Wheaton 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.
1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Politics iii. 82 This principle explains..why the ‘protected’ regions of the world..are of necessity backward.
1878 H. H. Gibbs Game of Ombre (ed. 2) 22 He keeps only the trumps and perhaps the Kings or at most a protected Queen.
1910 J. Driscoll Ringcraft 86 Wild attempts to hook him on his well protected jaw.
1926 Brit. 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.
1942 Ann. 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.
1956 J. 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.
1978 Country Life 20 July 148/3 Jersey has no statutory list of protected buildings as has existed in Britain for the last three decades.
2000 M. Fletcher Silver Linings (2001) ii. 17 Any number of prime IRA targets live in heavily protected houses tucked away down these back lanes.
2. Of a warship: in which the operationally important areas are shielded with armour-plating. Now historical.
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1881 Times 19 Mar. 9/4 He was glad..that they were to have partially protected cruisers of great speed, believing that the more they had of that class of vessels the better.
1884 Sir T. Symonds in Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Sept. 1/2 Twenty-three battle ships..(of which four are protected cruisers).
1945 Evening Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 8 Oct. 4/7 By the time of the Spanish-American war, the Navy consisted of four first class battleships, two second class battleships, two armored cruisers and 13 protected cruisers.
2001 L. Sondhaus Naval Warfare vi. 140 The 2-inch deck armor and some plating around its gun mountings made it [sc. the Chilean cruiser Esmeralda] the first ‘protected’ cruiser.
3. Of a species whose survival is threatened: guarded by laws controlling collecting, hunting, etc. Of a habitat or locality: guarded by laws controlling damage, alteration, etc.
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the world > life > biology > collection or conservation of natural specimens > [adjective] > protected
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [adjective] > protected or defended > of an endangered species
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1901 Jrnl. Soc. Compar. Legislation 3 385 In these ‘protected waters’ no person may search for or gather pearls..or use any diving apparatus without a licence from the Crown licensee.
1907 Jrnl. Soc. Compar. Legislation 8 290 No. 10 amends the law with regard to the protection of wild birds... The exportation from Ceylon of any part of any protected bird is made an offence.
1959 E. 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.
1976 Hortus 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.
1992 Nat. World Winter 22/1 The tiny island is important for its native skinks and geckos, its natural woodlands and as a protected breeding site for turtles.
2005 Independent 7 May 31/1 ‘Salties’, which were hunted to the brink of extinction until 30 years ago, are a protected species, and the population is flourishing.
4. Law (chiefly British). Designating, having, or relating to a tenancy agreement according the tenant specific protection against eviction or any rent rises which fall outside certain strict guidelines.
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1932 Times 21 Jan. 4/4 In October, 1928, the Crown sold all the huts to the respondents, who continued to treat the tenants as protected tenants.
1944 Times 23 June 2/2 A tenant who has successfully applied to the Court should be given a protected tenancy for some limited period.
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.
2000 Farmers Weekly 18 Feb. 96/4 A farmhouse and eight cottages split between assured shorthold and protected tenancies are guided at about £1m.
5. Computing. Of memory, files, etc.: intended to be accessed or modified only by designated applications or users; (of a portion of memory) having the property that any application running within it cannot access any other parts of the same system's memory.copy-protected, password-protected: see the first element.
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1966 R. P. Case et al. U.S. Patent 3,264,615 1 To insure the protection of certain words..it is desirable to establish certain areas of memory which have a ‘protected’ status.
1986 Computerworld 5 May 74/1 This disk cache program may be loaded into DOS memory, expanded memory or protected memory.
2009 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 11 June 35/3 Electronic submissions (using a single pdf or other protected file) are also encouraged.
6. Designating sexual activity with contraception or (in later use esp.) protection against sexually transmitted infection. Cf. unprotected adj. 3.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > contraception or birth control > [adjective]
contraceptive1918
protected1976
1976 Chicago Tribune 26 Mar. ii. 2/5 Even ‘protected’ intercourse can result in pregnancy.
1986 Guardian (Nexis) 3 Dec. An unprecedented public health education campaign..should give explicit guidance on ‘protected sex’, and, for drug users, on the acquisition and use of free sterile needles.
2002 S. Kippax in A. O'Leary Beyond Condoms i. 11 Over one third continued to use condoms and engaged in protected anal intercourse only.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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