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advocate

/verb ad-vuh-keyt; noun ad-vuh-kit, -keyt/US // verb ˈæd vəˌkeɪt; noun ˈæd və kɪt, -ˌkeɪt //

倡导,倡导者,主张,鼓吹

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    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.
v.无主动词 verb
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    ad·vo·cat·ed, ad·vo·cat·ing.

    • : to act as an advocate: a father who advocates for his disabled child.
n.名词 noun
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    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbsupport idea or cause publicly
Forms: advocated, advocates, advocating
Synonyms
back背面,背部,背,背后campaign for竞选,争取,活动的,竞选活动defend保护,防御,辩护,维护encourage鼓励,激励,励,励志favor赞成,偏爱,宠爱,恩惠further进一步,更进一步,进一步推动,进一步推进justify证明,证明是正确的,圆满解决,圆满完成press for迫于压力的promote促进,推动,推广,推销propose建议,提议,提出,提出建议push推动,促进,推,推进recommend建议,推荐,推荐理由,荐support支持,支助,支撑,支持率tout兜售,兜兜转转,兜底,兜揽uphold支持,坚持,维护,拥护urge敦促,督促,促成,促请advance进展,晋级,进展情况,预付款advise劝告,劝说,建议,告知bless祝福,保佑,庇佑,赐福bolster长枕头,支持,长枕,长椅boost推动,促进,促进发展,催促champion冠军,冠军得主,锦标赛,冠军的countenance长相,容貌,颜面,眉目plug插头,塞子,堵塞,堵住side侧面,旁边,旁边的,旁人vindicate平反,平反昭雪,平反一切,平反冤假错案argue for辩称,主张,争辩说,争论be in corner处在角落里,在角落里,角落里,在角落中brace up撑起来,撑起来吧,撑起来了,撑住build up积累,建立,积累起来,积累起来的get on bandwagon攀比之风盛行,上车,归队,攀比之风give a leg up支招,扶持,出头鸟,出头露面give a lift搭便车,搭车,搭顺风车go for去为,去争取,去找,前往go to bat for争取,支持,为其辩护go with跟,与,跟随,去hold with持有,用,持,握有plead for恳求,恳请,哀求,争取plump for倾向于,倾心于,追求,倾慕于ride shotgun for乘坐猎枪为,乘坐猎枪,乘坐猎枪的root for根为run interference for奔走相告,干扰,奔走呼号,奔走呼应say so这么说吧,这么说,这样说吧,这样说speak for发言的人,发言的,发言人,代表spread around铺天盖地,铺天盖地的,散布在各地,散布在世界各地stump for执着于,执着地追求,执意要为,执着地追求着
Antonyms

Examples

  • 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.