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protect definition - legal

v

To keep safe; to preserve something that already exists, as in protecting trade and protecting consumers.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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