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Synonyms & Antonyms of advocate
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
a person who actively supports or favors a cause
- Mark Twain, Noah Webster, and President Theodore Roosevelt are among past advocates of a reformed spelling system
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2
a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations
- with such a strong case against him, he's going to need the best advocate that money can buy
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of advocate (Entry 2 of 2)
to promote the interests or cause of
- environmentalists advocating agricultural methods designed to slow the destruction of rain forests
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- back,
- champion,
- endorse
- (also indorse),
- patronize,
- plump (for),
- plunk (for)
- or plonk (for),
- support
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