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n. - The position of a person who cares for persons or property

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  • The little girl, Mala, survived long enough to make it onto the medevac bird, and then she left our protectorship.
  • America, and assumes that she had such rights at the date of the treaty and that those rights comprehended the protectorship of the Mosquito
  • "The Catalonians are more disposed toward France than toward Portugal, and there is still time to deprive the King of-the Duke of Portugal, I should say -- of this...
  • Russia also claims suzeranity and protectorship over Chinese Manchuria.
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