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1. Push for something
   "The travel agent advocated strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day";
   - recommend, urge, encourage
    
2. Speak, plead, or argue in favour of
   "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house";
   - preach

1. A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
   - advocator, proponent, exponent
    
2. (law) a lawyer who pleads cases in court
   - counsel, counselor [US], counsellor [Brit, Cdn], counselor-at-law [US, Ireland], pleader

Derived forms: advocated, advocating, advocates

Type of: advise, attorney, exhort, individual, lawyer, mortal, person, press, propose, somebody, someone, soul, suggest, urge, urge on

Encyclopedia: Advocate Advocate, Nova Scotia