Protection
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The word protection refers to anything that helps ward off some threat; the preservation from injury or harm; money paid for a guarantee against threatened violence.
Protection may also refer to:
- Protection (album), a 1994 album by Massive Attack
- Protection (climbing), a climber's basic safety mechanisms
- Protection (poker), type of bet made to strengthen vulnerable hands
- Personal protective equipment, to shield the body from hazards
- Power system protection, of electric systems against faults
- Protection mechanism an aspect of computer architecture
- A condom (slang)
- A promised benefit from a protection racket, an extortion scheme
- Life insurance
- Earthquake protection
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