Protectorate (Crossword clue)

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• The government of a protector
• The English government from 1653 to 1659
• The office or position, or the term of office, of a protector
• A protectorate in its inception adopted by modern international law
• Applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell
• The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one
• Formerly in international law, a small state under the direct or indirect control of a larger one
• The relation of a strong state toward a weaker state or territory that it protects and partly controls
• In international relations, the relationship between two states one of which exercises some decisive control over the other
• A state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs