protectorate.
1. m. dignity, Office, or virtue of protector.
2. m. exercise of this dignity, Office, or virtue.
3. m. part of sovereignty that a State exercises, notably on external relations, in territory that has not been incorporated fully his nation and in which there are indigenous peoples own authorities.
4. m. territory in which this shared sovereignty is exercised.
5. d. senior management and inspection that reserve public power
on private charitable institutions.
