advocate 的 3 个定义
ad·vo·cat·ed, ad·vo·cat·ing.
- to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
ad·vo·cat·ed, ad·vo·cat·ing.
- to act as an advocate: a father who advocates for his disabled child.
- a person who speaks or writes in support or defense of a person, cause, etc.: an advocate of peace.
- a person who pleads for or in behalf of another; intercessor.
- a person who pleads the cause of another in a court of law.
advocate 近义词
person supporting an idea or cause publicly
support idea or cause publicly
advocate 的近义词 46 个
- back
- campaign for
- defend
- encourage
- favor
- further
- justify
- press for
- promote
- propose
- push
- recommend
- support
- tout
- uphold
- urge
- advance
- advise
- bless
- bolster
- boost
- champion
- countenance
- plug
- side
- vindicate
- argue for
- be in corner
- brace up
- build up
- get on bandwagon
- give a leg up
- give a lift
- go for
- go to bat for
- go with
- hold with
- plead for
- plump for
- ride shotgun for
- root for
- run interference for
- say so
- speak for
- spread around
- stump for
advocate 的反义词 22 个
更多advocate例句
- Voting-rights advocates said they are concerned with requirements that create more opportunities for voters to make mistakes and potentially make it less likely for their ballot to count.
- Of course, for many privacy advocates, surveillance drones capturing people’s every move is a dystopian nightmare.
- Globally, the commitment has been well received by climate advocates.
- Instead, according to records obtained by ProPublica, the deputy contacted the Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky, a leading advocate for the discredited argument that American elections are tainted by widespread voting fraud.
- This is a tremendous opportunity for someone who has the credibility and composure to lead the search community as an educator and an advocate.
- I am fighting that quota because I am an advocate of competition.
- As a well-known advocate for Baluch rights in Iran, young Iranians reach out to him for advice.
- He is a true advocate for human rights who has paid a horrible price for standing up against the Assad dictatorship.
- Another step is to require a lawyer or advocate present during questioning of people with ID.
- How, then, are LGBT people to advocate for their rights (civil, human, or otherwise) if they cannot even identify themselves?
- Few, however, can now be found who do not advocate utilization of the principle to a greater or less degree in every organ.
- Alexis Normand, advocate of the parliament of Paris, died; justly celebrated for his love of justice.
- The day before her trial, her advocate, Chauveau de la Garde, visited her to consult respecting her defense.
- Philip Livingston, a signer and a strenuous advocate for the declaration of independence, died.
- He was the advocate of experimental rather than theoretical systems of medicine, and early adopted the practice of inoculation.