protecting

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Anti-trust is about protecting the free market from natural monopolies, and Apple is by no means a monopoly.

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Quick take

(ambitransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of protecting gathered in one view.

verb

(ambitransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

verb

(travel, aviation) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for protecting.

verb

(ambitransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

verb

(travel, aviation) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.

Example sentences

Anti-trust is about protecting the free market from natural monopolies, and Apple is by no means a monopoly.

The value of the FSF is not in freedom, it's in protecting people's choice.

None of it has anything to do with protecting you against what most people would recognize as malware.

Ubuntu encourages derivation, but there has to be balance in protecting users and the reputation of the Ubuntu project.

Even so, the organization they'd be protecting us from is the exact same one they're part of.

Fair use is a spectrum, aimed at protecting people against spurious or unfair copyright claims.

Water is something we should be protecting and conserving with battles going on for it all over.

The regulatory body actually does something useful rather than just protecting rent seekers.

An entirely novel way of protecting the system has been designed for GL02.

Patents are needed in industries where r&d is expensive enough to warrant protecting inventors for a sizeable time so they can recoup their investment.

I thought the futility of protecting image assets online was accepted a long time ago.

If you privatise the police force you end up with protecting the rich from the poor, which some might argue is even currently what happens too much.

Quote examples

Navy in mind, for the primary purpose of protecting government communications." [1] The article you link to quotes one of the original TOR authors, but fails to link to his words.

Our mission includes protecting consumers from fake cancer cures, cosmetics that contain mercury, "all natural" supplements that contain dangerous pharmaceuticals, and illegal online pharmacies that fake their certifications and sell prescription medications to anyone who asks.

This is very typical for created-in-a-lab languages: they were designed with a average Joe programmer in mind, protecting him from shooting himself in a foot, and later on, to make them less painful to use, were given these "features".