protectorado

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Portuguese

Noun

protectorado m (plural protectorados)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of protetorado. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɾoteɡtoˈɾado/
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: pro‧tec‧to‧ra‧do

Noun

protectorado m (plural protectorados)

  1. protectorate
    • 2015 July 14, “¿Quién es el jeque que ha comprado el 10% de El Corte Inglés?”, in El País:
      Pero sobre todo grandes inversiones en el Reino Unido, que gobernó Qatar como un protectorado hasta 1971.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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