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  1. Formerly in international law, a small state
  2. under the direct or indirect control of a
  3. larger one. The 20th-century equivalent was a
  4. trust territory. In English history the rule
  5. of Oliver and Richard Cromwell 1653-59 is
  6. referred to as the Protectorate.
  7.