"pocket protector" meaning in English

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          "sense": "a sheath designed to fit in a shirt pocket",
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          "word": "protector de bolsillo"
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          "text": "It was a pocket-protector paradise, its culture defined by the HP way: paternal, collaborative, entrepreneurial, community minded and inconspicuous.",
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          "ref": "2012, Annabel Monaghan, A Girl Named Digit, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 5:",
          "text": "My dad is head of the math department at UCLA. Yes, that is where all the pocket protectors go to meet other pocket protectors.",
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          "ref": "2024 August 20, M.P. Woodward, Tom Clancy Shadow State, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The pocket protectors were clearly jubilant. Magic could hear some celebrating in the background of the transmission.",
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        "A white-collar technical worker such as a scientist or engineer, especially in military and space applications; a nerd or someone with a nerdy job."
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