Protectorate
/prəˈtɛktərət/
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Definition
(noun) Government by a protector; especially, The Protectorate: government of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1653 and 1659 under the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, later his son Richard Cromwell.
Sentence Examples
Cyprus was a British protectorate.
The UK established a protectorate over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The territory was placed under a British ____ in the nineteenth century and governed from London.