Adjective: protectionist
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more protectionist |
| Superlative | most protectionist |
Sample Sentences
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This is because most member countries still hold a very much protectionist stance when it comes to the service sector. [2008, International Transport Forum, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, SourceOECD (Online service), 17th International ITF/OECD Symposium on Transport Economics and Policy: benefiting from globalisation : transport sector contribution and policy challenges : introductory reports and summary of discussion : 25-27 October 2006, Berlin, →ISBN, page 171:]
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The "national security" grounds were gauzy at best; the 232 tariffs were classically protectionist. [2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened, →ISBN, page 185:]
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While protectionist policies, with its tariffs on imports and wholesale rejection of globalism, are often justified on the grounds of supporting domestic industries, preserving jobs, and enhancing national security, they also carry significant downsides, particularly for the most economically vulnerable populations. [2024 March 20, Veronique de Rugy, “The Political Right Has Luxury Beliefs, Too”, in Reason:]
Adjectives inflected like protectionist
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from French protectionniste, equivalent to protection + -ist. See: French Adjectives '
protectionniste'.