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/prˈoʊtəkˌɑl/ /prˈoʊtəkˌɔl/ Listen

noun

Protocol n.

The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.

The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction.

(Diplomacy)

(a)

A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.

(b)

A convention not formally ratified.

(c)

An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.

verb

Protocol v. t. To make a protocol of.

Protocol v. i. To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols.

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Etymology of 'Protocol'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... adjusted, and the allies insisted on setting aside forever the pretentions of the anti-foreign Prince Tuan and his son, banishing the former to perpetual exile, our hopes ran high that the Emperor would be restored to his throne. But to our disappointment the framers of the Protocol contented themselves with the clause that: "Rational intercourse shall be permitted with the Emperor as in Western countries," and with the return of the court in 1902 ...

— Court Life in China • Isaac Taylor Headland

... between the Argentine Republic and Chile was brought about by a series of four documents of May 28, 1902, one of July 10, 1902, and one of January 9, 1903. A preliminary protocol declares the disposition of both countries "to remove all causes for trouble in their international relations." A general treaty of arbitration unlimited in scope was signed for a period of ten years. A convention ...

— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association

... a great physicist, unable to share amusement, wrote: "It is sad to see a municipality giving credence to the babble of the vulgar in a protocol, and to see authentic testimonies to an ...

— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori

... magistrates and superior class of inhabitants with difficulty obtained room to examine the body, having with them the town clerk to take an official protocol, or, as it is still called, a precognition, of the condition in which it was found. To these delays the multitude submitted, with a patience and order which strongly marked the national character of a people whose resentment ...

— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott

... interfering, either collectively or individually, between a sovereign and his subjects'(4)—after having proclaimed the principle of the absolute independence of sovereigns in favor of the Turkish Sultan against his Christian subjects, thought itself justified by its protocol of April 8th, and in the absence of any representative of the august accused, in proclaiming that the situation of the Papal States was abnormal and irregular. This accusation, developed, aggravated and exaggerated in parliament and elsewhere, by Lord Palmerston and Count Cavour, ...

— Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell

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