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Meaning:
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the state of protecting or being protected; a person or thing that protects

care, guardianship

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Cases of word usage

1) without clothing, covering, protection or decoration (bare)

2) to inject a substance (a serum or vaccine) into (a person or animal) to produce a mild form of a disease in order to be a protection against it (inoculate)

3) (in olden times) a person punished by being placed outside the protection of the law; to make (something) illegal; ban (it) officially (outlaw)

4) giving protection (protective)

5) a person who protects; something made or designed to give protection (protector)

6) (a place giving) shelter or protection from trouble, danger etc (refuge)

7) clean; free from any dirt that might cause disease; of, concerned with, the protection of (public) health (sanitary)

8) (often movable) upright framework (some made to fold), used to divide a room; anything that is or can be used to give shelter or protection form observation, thee weather etc; a surface on which films, photographs, TV pictures are shown; a frame with fine wire netting to keep out insects (screen)

9) the condition of being kept safe; something that gives safety and protection (shelter)

10) a folding frame covered with cloth, used to shelter the person holding it from rain; any protection (umbrella)

PROTECTION as in Wiktionary
PROTECTION as in Wikipedia