PROTECTIONISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protectionism mean? 

• PROTECTIONISM (noun)
  The noun PROTECTIONISM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PROTECTIONISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTECTIONISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("protectionism" is a kind of...):

economic policy (a government policy for maintaining economic growth and tax revenues)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protectionism"):

import barrier; trade barrier (any regulation or policy that restricts international trade)

Derivation:

protectionist (an advocate of protectionism)