protectionism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French protectionnisme, equivalent to protection +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɛk.ʃə.nɪ.zəm/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃənɪzəm
• Hyphenation: pro‧tec‧tio‧ni‧sm

Noun

protectionism (countable and uncountable, plural protectionisms)

1. (politics, economics) A system or policy of protecting the domestic producers of a product from foreign competition by imposing tariffs, quotas, duties or other barriers on importations.
   • 2024 March 20, Veronique de Rugy, “The Political Right Has Luxury Beliefs, Too”, in Reason‎^[1]:

     Take the New Right's full-throated embrace of protectionism and industrial policy. This romance with protectionism started in the 1990s with former GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, gained enormous traction under former President Donald Trump, and is still going strong today.

2. Linguistic purism.

Related terms

• protectionist

Translations

a policy of protecting the domestic producers by imposing tariffs etc.

• Albanian: proteksionizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: حِمَائِيَّة f (ḥimāʔiyya)
• Armenian: պրոտեկցիոնիզմ (hy) (protekcʻionizm), հովանավորչություն (hy) (hovanavorčʻutʻyun)
• Asturian: proteicionismu m
• Azerbaijani: proteksionizm
• Basque: protekzionismo
• Belarusian: пратэкцыяні́зм m (pratekcyjanízm)
• Bulgarian: протекциони́зъм (bg) m (protekcionízǎm)
• Catalan: proteccionisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保護主義 / 保护主义 (zh) (bǎohùzhǔyì)

• Czech: protekcionismus m
• Danish: protektionisme c
• Dutch: protectionisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: protektismo
• Estonian: protektsionism
• Finnish: protektionismi (fi)
• French: protectionnisme (fr) m
• Georgian: პროტექციონიზმი (ṗroṭekcionizmi)
• German: Protektionismus (de) m
• Greek: προστατευτισμός (el) m (prostateftismós)
• Hebrew: פְּרוֹטֶקְצְיוֹנִיזְם m (protektsionízm)
• Hindi: संरक्षणवाद m (sanrakṣaṇvād)
• Hungarian: protekcionizmus (hu)
• Ido: protektismo
• Indonesian: proteksionisme (id)
• Irish: cosantachas
• Italian: protezionismo (it) m
• Japanese: 保護主義 (ja) (ほごしゅぎ, hogoshugi), 保護貿易 (ja) (ほごぼうえき, hogobōeki)
• Kazakh: протекционизм (proteksionizm), қолдампаздық (qoldampazdyq), қолдаушылық (qoldauşylyq)
• Korean: 보호주의(保護主義) (ko) (bohojuui), 보호무역(保護貿易) (ko) (bohomuyeok)
• Kyrgyz: протекционизм (protektsionizm)
• Latvian: protekcionisms m
• Lithuanian: protekcionizmas m
• Macedonian: протекциони́зам m (protekcionízam)
• Maori: pākaihokotanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: proteksjonisme m

  Nynorsk: proteksjonisme m

• Persian: حمایت‌گرایی (hemâyat-garâyi)
• Polish: protekcjonizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: protecionismo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸੁਰੱਖਿਆਵਾਦ (surakkhiāvād)
• Romanian: protecționism (ro) n
• Russian: протекциони́зм (ru) m (protɛkcionízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: протекционѝзам m

  Roman: protekcionìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: protekcionizmus m
• Slovene: protekcionizem m
• Spanish: proteccionismo (es) m
• Swedish: protektionism (sv) c
• Tajik: протектсио­низм (protektsio­nizm)
• Tamil: பாதுகாப்புவாதம் (pātukāppuvātam)
• Tatar: протекционизм (protektsionizm), химаячелек (ximayaçelek)
• Thai: ลัทธิคุ้มครอง (th) (lát-tí-kúm-krɔɔng)
• Turkish: korumacılık (tr), himayecilik (tr)
• Ukrainian: протекціоні́зм m (protekcionízm)
• Uzbek: proteksionizm (uz)
• Vietnamese: bảo hộ mậu dịch
• Welsh: diffyndollaeth