protective
pruh tek tiv
- a intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind
a protective covering
the use of protective masks and equipment
protective coatings
kept the drunken sailor in protective custody
animals with protective coloring
protective tariffs - s showing care
a protective mother - s (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful
protective of his reputation
- Child protective services responded that Jeffs was a convicted sex offender and under Texas law he could have no contact with the children unless it was proved he was their father .
- The link between protective mental health benefits and estrogen therapy appears to conflict with the findings of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which found that women who .
- Children in highly developed countries suffer abuse and neglect much more often than is reported by official child-protective agencies, according to the findings of the first in a .