Definition of Protocol

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Protocol

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.

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

A convention not formally ratified.

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

To make a protocol of.

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

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Protocol Quotations

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.
John Charles Polanyi

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
Hans Blix

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.
Jon Postel

When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch.
Michel Patini

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
Sally Quinn

Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day.
David Rose

I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world.
Kelli White

We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.
Goran Persson

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
Christine Todd Whitman

Protocol Translations

protocol in Afrikaans is boetekaartjie
protocol in Dutch is bekeuring, proces-verbaal, notulen
protocol in German is Protokoll
protocol in Hungarian is protokoll
protocol in Italian is protocollo
protocol in Portuguese is protocolo
protocol in Spanish is protocolo, acta
protocol in Swedish is protokoll

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