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protective

noun

Something that protects.

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The word 'protective' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in various contexts, to describe someone or something that offers protection, or to describe a particular attitude. For example, you might say, "The parents were very protective of their children."

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This reported that the weaker mixture was modestly protective.

Guyana is below sea-level at high tide (hence the muddy rivers) and so a protective sea wall stretches for miles and buildings are slightly raised from the ground.

Griffiths was met by doctors wearing protective suits and put in isolation while blood tests were carried out, but they proved negative.

It was precisely that bucolic, protective environment in the deep countryside that made it almost impossible for his despairing grandmother to find him.

She's so raw and vulnerable; she's never formed the protective carapace that I formed very early on.

(I borrowed that dress once. To wear in a school revue. I was playing a Macbeth witch. In an Ossie Clark dress. Dear God!) I don't have many of my mum's clothes but those I have are kept in protective dust-bags.

Like all of Guyana, this area is untouched by large-scale tourism, and so there are no stalls selling postcards, no internet cafes, no protective fences against the cliff's edge.

Clancy, the former head of the president's protective detail, came out of retirement to replace Pierson.

Given the deep racial segregations in the LGBT community of this city and so many like it, leaders like Palmer and Korea Kelly, the mother of the House of Cavalli, need to lead in safely navigating a culture that is open about sex but protective about the potential risks of certain practices.

The burly figure in an armour-like protective suit could be an emergency worker from the scene of some gruesome disaster.

She hopes people will see the character's point of view; it was a difficult role to shrug off, and she feels protective of her, as actors often do with the characters they have created.

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