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/prətˈɛkʃənˌɪzəm/ /pərtˈɛkʃənˌɪzəm/ Listen

Protectionism

noun

The policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition.

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Etymology of 'Protectionism'

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"Protectionism" Quotes from Famous Books

... of feeling, conviction and tenacity, a working journalist and a doughty doctrinaire. A little group of such men formed itself about Schurz—then only forty-three years old—to what end? Why, Greeley, Horace Greeley, the bellwether of abolitionism, the king bee of protectionism, the man of fads and isms and the ...

— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

Words linked to "Protectionism" : trade barrier, import barrier, protectionist, economic policy