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protected

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //pɹəˈtɛktɪd//

defended

adjective

  1. 1

    defended

  2. 2

    Having the protected access modifier, indicating that a program element is accessible to subclasses but not to the program in general.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of protectsimple past and past participle of protect

Forms

comparative
more protected
superlative
most protected
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).