Word Meanings - PROTECTIONISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.

Related words: (words related to PROTECTIONISM)

• PROTECTIONIST
  One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
• POLICY
  1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method
• PROTECTIONISM
  The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
• DOCTRINE
  1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
• PROTECTION
  A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed
• IMPOLICY
  The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
• MISPOLICY
  Wrong policy; impolicy.
• TERM POLICY
  A policy of term insurance.
• VALUED POLICY
  A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy.
• VALUED-POLICY LAW
  A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss.
• BLANKET MORTGAGE; BLANKET POLICY
  One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.
• TIME POLICY
  A policy limited to become void at a specified time; -- often contrasted with voyage policy.
• MONROE DOCTRINE
  See DOCTRINE
• ENDOCTRINE
  To teach; to indoctrinate. Donne.