PROTOCOL

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

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

3.
n.

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

4.
n.

A convention not formally ratified.

5.
n.

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

6.
v.

To make a protocol of.

7.
v.

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