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Protected
/pɹəˈtɛktɪd/
To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
📖 Definitions of "Protected"
verb
- 1
To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
"Condoms are designed to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases."
- 2
(travel) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.
adjective
- 1
Defended
- 2
(of a variable, method, etc.) Having the protected access modifier, indicating that a program element is accessible to subclasses but not to the program in general.
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