Definition:
protection
- protectionThe cover provided by an insurance policy
- protectionA legal or other formal measure intended to preserve civil liberties and rights
- protectionA person or thing that prevents someone or something from suffering harm or injury
- protectionThe practice of paying money to criminals so as to prevent them from attacking oneself or one's property
- protectionA document guaranteeing immunity from harm to the person specified in it
- protectionThe action of protecting someone or something, or the state of being protected
- protectionUsed euphemistically to refer to the keeping of a mistress by her lover in a separate establishment
- protectionthe act of protecting
- protectionThe money so paid to criminals, esp. on a regular basis