资料来源 : pyDict
摄政,摄政政治,护民官之职
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Protectorate \Pro*tect"or*ate\, n. [Cf. F. protectorat.]
1. Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the
government of England by Oliver Cromwell.
2. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior
or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter
from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.
资料来源 : WordNet®
protectorate
n : a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a
possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in
internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty
[syn: {associated state}]