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protectionistic

protectionistic adjective: exhibiting or relating to protectionism.

Adjective

protectionistic (comparative more protectionistic, superlative most protectionistic)

  1. Exhibiting or relating to protectionism.
    • If you don't change the bureaucracy first, the existing protectionistic laws and the Board will derail any positive efforts between management and labor that fall outside the edges of what the NLRB might call the "field of battle."1996, F. David Pierce, Shifting Safety and Health Paradigms, page 58

Antonyms of protectionistic

Forms of protectionistic

comparativemore protectionistic
superlativemost protectionistic

Questions about protectionistic

What does protectionistic mean?
Protectionistic means exhibiting or relating to protectionism.
What part of speech is protectionistic?
Protectionistic is an adjective.

Words near protectionistic in the dictionary

  1. protectional
  2. protectionary
  3. protectionism
  4. protectionisms
  5. protectionist
  6. protectionistic
  7. protectionists
  8. protectionless
  9. protections
  10. protective
  11. protective briefs

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