advocate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
2. isim Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.

   “I neuer did incense his Maiestie / Against the Duke of Clarence, but haue bin / An earnest aduocate to plead for him.”

3. isim A person who speaks in support of something, or someone; proponent

   “"I think," replied the young advocate, unwilling to give up a point in which his feelings were interested, "that even you would believe in Walter Maynard's success in life, if you knew him. What has brought the world to its present state, but individual talent?"”

4. isim A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.

   “Since she started working with her advocate, she has become much more confident.”

5. fiil To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.

   “7 March, 1624, Robert Sanderson, sermon at the Assizes, at Lincoln To advocate the cause of thy client.”

6. fiil To encourage support for something.

   “I like trees, but I do not advocate living in them.”

7. fiil To engage in advocacy.

   “We have been advocating for changes in immigration law.”

8. fiil To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
9. fiil To call a case before itself for decision.