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    In exchange, the protectorate usually accepts specified obligations depending on the terms of their arrangement. Usually protectorates are established de jure by a treaty. Under certain conditions—as with Egypt under British rule (1882–1914)—a state can also be labelled as a de facto protectorate or a veiled protectorate.

  2. protectorate, in international relations, the relationship between two states one of which exercises some decisive control over the other. The degree of control may vary from a situation in which the protecting state guarantees and protects the safety of the other, such as the status afforded to the kingdom of Bhutan by India, to one that is a masked form of annexation, in the manner of the ...

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  4. Jun 27, 2018 · 1. a state that is controlled and protected by another. ∎ the relationship between a state of this kind and the one that controls it: a French protectorate had been established over Tunis. 2. (usu. Protectorate) hist. the position or period of office of a Protector, esp. that in England of Oliver and Richard Cromwell.

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