trade protectionism

collocation in English

meaningsoftradeandprotectionism

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trade
adjective
uk
/treɪd/
us
/treɪd/
publishingspecialized
used to refer to the publishing of books, etc. that are aimed at the ...
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protectionism
noun[U]
uk
/prəˈtek.ʃən.ɪ.zəm/
us
/prəˈtek.ʃən.ɪ.zəm/
the actions of a government to help its country's trade or industry by taxing goods bought from ...
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(Definition oftradeandprotectionismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftrade protectionism

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There was notradeprotectionismyet in these domains.
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Tradeprotectionismwas also seen as a route to addressing sensitive issues surrounding the malfunctioning gold standard too.
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They have told us that they will abandon any pretence thattradeprotectionismcan work.
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By and large, only a few countries resorted totradeprotectionism.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
A growing long-term threat to employment is the shadow oftradeprotectionism.
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I shall not go into it now, save to say that it is a completely deplorable instance oftradeprotectionismof the worst kind.
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Sadly, whentradeprotectionismbreaks out, that is the way that it is brought to an end.
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It can be threatened by monopoly and cartels,tradeprotectionismmasquerading as protection, or neglect of public health standards.
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I believe thattradeprotectionismwill not only become undesirable but impractical.
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Tradeprotectionismis a potential threat in any global recession.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The real problem which so many of us worry about with good cause, is that there is a danger of the world lapsing into regional blocks and regionaltradeprotectionism.
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We must stand out against unfair trade, and we can all point to examples of that, but that aim is confused with a drift towards generaltradeprotectionism.
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This report allows us to make the aid we grant an already devastated country dependent on that country's undertaking to give up all forms oftradeprotectionism.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Bass does so through supportingtradeprotectionism.
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