how to pronounce protective

/pɹəˈtɛk.tɪv/

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protective is pronounced in three syllables

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pɹətɛktɪv

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An example use of protective in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… now using it to design protective shaded …”

meaning of protective

Protective means to provide with protection.

protective frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word protective occurs in english on average 13 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics protective can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that protective can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

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