trade protection

1. 1.

   the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition

   “he made trade protection a plank in the party platform”

   Synonymsprotection

   Broaderimposition

Questions about trade protection

What does trade protection mean?

trade protection means "the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition".

What is another word for trade protection?

Close synonyms include protection. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trade protection a common word?

trade protection is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.