名词

1. 保护；防护
To give or be protection against something unpleasant means to prevent people or things from being harmed or damaged by it.

2. （保险单提供的）保险
If an insurance policy gives you protection against an event such as death, injury, fire, or theft, the insurance company will give you or your family money if that event happens.

3. 保护法；保护条例；保护措施
Protections are laws and other official measures intended to protect people's rights and freedoms.

4. 贸易保护；关税保护
If a government has a policy of protection, it helps its own industries by putting a tax on imported goods or by restricting imports in some other way.

5. （歹徒索取保护费后提供的）保护
If criminals offer people protection, they demand money from them and in return promise not to hurt them or damage their property.

1. payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence

e.g. every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection

Synonym: tribute

2. the activity of protecting someone or something

e.g. the witnesses demanded police protection

3. the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition

e.g. he made trade protection a plank in the party platform

Synonym: trade protection

4. kindly endorsement and guidance

e.g. the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council

Synonym: auspicesaegis

5. a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury

e.g. they had no protection from the fallout
wax provided protection for the floors

Synonym: protective coveringprotective cover

6. defense against financial failure
financial independence

e.g. his pension gave him security in his old age
insurance provided protection against loss of wages due to illness

Synonym: security

7. the condition of being protected

e.g. they were huddled together for protection
he enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home

Synonym: shelter