advocate
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(noun) a person who pleads for a cause or idea |
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Synonyms: exponent, proponent |
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Related Words: Jansenist, Maoist, Platonist, admirer, apologist, booster, champion, constitutionalist, democrat, federalist, friend, gnostic, human, humanist, ideologist, ideologue, individual, internationalist, interpreter, irredentist, irridentist, isolationist, justifier, mortal, neoclassicist, neutralist, partisan, partitionist, person, populist, protagonist, protectionist, representative, republican, ritualist, ruralist, secessionist, secularist, separatist, somebody, someone, soul, spokesperson, supporter, supremacist, teleologist, unilateralist, vindicator, voice, zealot |
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(noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court |
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Synonyms: counsel, counsellor, counselor, counselor-at-law |
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Related Words: attorney, lawyer |
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(verb) speak, plead, or argue in favour of |
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Synonyms: preach |
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Related Words: exhort, moralise, moralize, preachify, press, sermonize, urge, urge on |
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(verb) push for something |
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Synonyms: recommend, urge |
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Related Words: advise, propose, suggest |
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