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protective Adjective 1. giving protection: protective clothing 2. tending or wishing to protect someone protectively adv
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protective Translationsprotective custody (LAW) → detención f preventiva protective custody (Law) → détention préventive protective custody protect → Schutzhaft f protective custody (LAW) → protezione f |
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| With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and three-tenths of their income will be dissipated; while government expenses for broken chariots, worn-out horses, breast-plates and helmets, bows and arrows, spears and shields, protective mantles, draught-oxen and heavy wagons, will amount to four-tenths of its total revenue. Mitenka himself, returning tipsy from the town, used to hide there, and many of the residents at Otradnoe, hiding from Mitenka, knew of its protective qualities. "We might form ourselves into a Randall Protective Agency, Limited," mused Miss Maxwell. |
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