protectionist
/prəˈtɛkʃ(ə)nɪst
/Economics
noun
An advocate of the policy of shielding a country’s domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports: barriers erected by the agricultural protectionists...
- The newspaper has accused me of being a "table-thumping protectionist."
- The agricultural protectionists are always on the watch for ways to block foreign competition.
- He is a trade protectionist who would disrupt one of the greatest wealth-creating, wealth-spreading mechanisms since World War II.
adjective
Relating to the theory or practice of shielding a country’s domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports: protectionist measures against foreign imports...
- The president explained that his steel tariffs were really not protectionist.
- Automakers had put pressure on the government to maintain protectionist policies for the automobile industry.
- The protectionist policies they endorse have been aptly called "beggar thy neighbor."
Rhymes
- accident investigation
- accident investigator
- accident neurosis
- accident-prone
- accident-proneness
- accident record
- accidents will happen in the best regulated families
- accidia
- accidie
- accidious
- accipiter
- accipitral
- accipitrary
- accipitrine
- accismus
- acclaim
- acclaimed
- acclaimer
- acclamation
- acclamator
- acclamatory
- acclimatable
- acclimatation
- acclimate
- acclimation