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Protect vs Ecofreak - What's the difference?

protect | ecofreak |

As a verb protect

is to keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

As a noun ecofreak is

a person with a passion for protecting the natural environment; an ecological activist.

protect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}

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    * (l) * See also

    Derived terms

    * protection * To protect and to serve

    ecofreak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, derogatory) A person with a passion for protecting the natural environment; an ecological activist.
  • * 1973 , Daedalus: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • The initial result of the rational ecofreak policies would be that the level of measured income would fall, or at least rise less rapidly...
  • * 1999 , Fred H Knelman, Every Life is a Story
    • The corporate world has responded to a perceived threat to the economic order by casting the environmentalist as un-American, as an ecofreak ...

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