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Engelsk navneord: advocate

1. advocate (om person) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea


Termer med samme betydning (synonymer)advocator, exponent, proponent


Mindre specifikke termerindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul


Mere specifikke termeradmirer, apologist, booster, champion, constitutionalist, Darwinian, democrat, drumbeater, federalist, friend, Gnostic, humanist, humanitarian, ideologist, ideologue, internationalist, interpreter, irredentist, irridentist, isolationist, Jansenist, justifier, libertarian, Maoist, Marxist, nationalist, neoclassicist, neutralist, nullifier, partisan, partitionist, Platonist, populist, presenter, pro-lifer, protagonist, protectionist, representative, republican, ritualist, ruralist, secessionist, secularist, separationist, separatist, spokesperson, sponsor, suffragist, supporter, supremacist, teleologist, Thatcherite, unilateralist, vindicator, voice, zealot

2. advocate (om person) a lawyer who pleads cases in court


Termer med samme betydning (synonymer)counsel, counsellor, counselor, counselor-at-law, pleader


Mindre specifikke termerattorney, lawyer


Overordnet emneområdejurisprudence, law


Engelsk udsagnsord: advocate

1. advocate (om kommunikation) push for something


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningThe travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day.


Termer med samme betydning (synonymer)recommend, urge


AnvendelsesmønsterSomebody ----s something.
Something ----s something.
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE


Mindre specifikke termeradvise, propose, suggest

2. advocate (om kommunikation) speak, plead, or argue in favor of


Eksempler med tilsvarende betydningThe doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house.


Termer med samme betydning (synonymer)preach


AnvendelsesmønsterSomebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE.
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE.
Somebody ----s to somebody


Mindre specifikke termerexhort, press, urge, urge on


Mere specifikke termermoralise, moralize, preachify, sermonise, sermonize









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