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advocate
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[ verb ] push for something
Examples "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)And if he is so scornful of the rights of states , why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support ? Related terms |
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[ noun ] a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
Used in print (The New York Times,...)Skorich , however , is a strong advocate of a balanced attack - split between running and passing . Related terms person neutralist spokesperson Platonist democrat secessionist republican secularist supporter ideologist Jansenist apologist marxist partitionist partisan presenter protectionist internationalist federalist ritualist ruralist isolationist irredentist constitutionalist separatist Maoist supremacist teleologist neoclassicist darwinian unilateralist nationalist nullifier pro-lifer humanist suffragist gnostic thatcherite propound |
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[ verb ] speak, plead, or argue in favour of
Synonyms Examples "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house" Used in print (The Miami Herald,...)Do its spokesmen seem more interested in the amount_of_money they collect than in the principles they purport to advocate ? |
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[ noun ] (law,work) a lawyer who pleads cases in court
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