protectionistn.adj.

1834 Times 6 June 3/6 To attempt to play the protectionist or prohibitionist in places where we had no power, appeared to him [sc. Charles Poulett Thomson] an impossibility, not to say an absurdity.

1844 Ld. Fitzwilliam in G. Pryme Autobiog. (1870) 306 Protectionists, as they are now called, though I do not think it a good name to have given them, as I fear it will be rather a popular title.

1845 Ann. Rep. U.S. Treasury 483 The protectionist says, Tax us on, tax us on, until we have a home market for all our agricultural produce.

1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) iii. vii. 388 In America and Australia the great body of the working men are ardent protectionists.

1913 R. M. La Follette Autobiogr. 103 Domestic competition did not prove the strong regulator of commerce that the early protectionists believed it would.

1954 A. Briggs Victorian People ii. 25 Increasing prosperity was influencing the recalcitrant Protectionists unobtrusively to drop some of their anti-Free-Trade slogans.

2003 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 330/2 Much of the organizational opposition in America..was the work of protectionists who didn't want a Frog-Limey machine making inroads into their business.

1844 Times 5 Mar. 5/3 We willingly except Lord Worsley from any imputation which may be fixed on his Protectionist allies.

1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) II. viii. 72 Sir Robert Peel..ventured in the face of a protectionist Parliament, wholly to abandon the policy of protection.

1865 Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 6/4 The repeal of protectionist duties is among the wisest measures embraced in our statute book.

1903 Spectator 14 Mar. 409/1 The main objection was that Holland was Free-trade, Germany Protectionist.

1965 B. Pearce tr. E. Preobrazhensky New Econ. 121 If there is sometimes a protectionist tariff policy in countries with weakly developed industry..this has nothing in common, beyond external forms, with socialist protectionism.

1991 Economist 5 Oct. 21/1 Its exploitation of both cellular and fax technologies has been heavily dented by too much state direction and too protectionist a stance against foreign suppliers of equipment.