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protectorate
noun as in colony
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Weak matches
noun as in satellite
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Example Sentences
Mr. Mamdani, a professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University, is himself a Ugandan Asian, the term used to describe people from British India who had settled in the British protectorate of Uganda.
The French-speaking part of the former German protectorate, carved up between France and Britain after World War I, gained independence in 1960, joined a year later by British Cameroon.
In the winter of 1956, The Times correspondent David Holden arrived on the island of Bahrain, then still a British protectorate.
“We are neither a protectorate nor a colony of any foreign nation.”
But they are believed to have been intentionally introduced in East Africa around 1890s in a bid to tackle a mounting waste problem on the Zanzibar archipelago, then a British protectorate.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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