protections
- 1Plural of protection.
The treaty established legal protections for endangered species across both nations.
Consumer advocates warned that the rollback would erode hard-won protections.
Note
The plural draws on the countable side of protection: separate safeguards that can be listed and counted, such as distinct legal provisions or particular measures. Where the singular often names a general condition of being kept safe, the plural points to the specific means that create that condition. That is why it sits naturally after words like legal or consumer, which name a kind of safeguard.
protections is a form of protection
protection, noun: The act of keeping someone or something safe from harm, or the state of being kept safe. Full entry
- Forms
- protectionprotections plural
- Spelling
- protection → protections: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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