Usually means: Safeguarding from harm or danger.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word protecting:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. protecting: Merriam-Webster
  2. protecting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. protecting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Protecting, protecting: Wordnik
  5. protecting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. protecting: Wiktionary
  7. protecting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. protecting: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Protecting, protecting: Dictionary.com
  10. protecting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Protecting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Protecting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. protecting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. protecting: FreeDictionary.org
  15. protecting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. protecting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. protecting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. protecting: Legal dictionary
  3. protecting: Financial dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protecting: Idioms

(Note: See protect as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (protect)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
verb:  (travel, aviation) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.
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