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Especially the act of pleading or arguing for something
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advocacy
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Word definitions for advocacy in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions. Advocacy can include many activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the profession of an advocate 2 the act of arguing in favour of, or supporting something 3 the practice of supporting someone to make their voice heard
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French avocacie (14c.), from Medieval Latin advocatia , noun of state from Latin advocatus (see advocate (n.)).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. active support; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN group ▪ But she also attracted the ire of advocacy groups . ▪ La Raza is an umbrella group of almost 200 Hispanic advocacy groups. ▪ Similar advocacy groups in several other states also are planning legal action modeled ...
Usage examples of advocacy.
Royalist critics on the Right charged that his mediating, unifying role as National Guard commander was hopelessly undercut by his advocacy of natural rights and his tolerance of popular movements that could lead only to social disintegration.
Lafayette-Constant wing of French liberalism by no means denies the existence of utilitarian themes in their advocacy of human rights.
Arnold, was a writer and historian whose energetic advocacy of liberal ideas and international, liberal movements soon attracted the attention of sympathetic and hostile readers.
Greek Revolution and that his own advocacy of the cause would have to focus more on stimulating private American support and stronger popular sympathy for the suffering Greek people.
They all belonged to different schools of advocacy, and some knew very little about it.
In these cases, presided over by a judge who knows his work, the rules of evidence are strictly observed, and you will learn more in six months of practical advocacy than in ten years elsewhere.
My recollection of this period brings back many curious defences, which illustrate the school of advocacy in which I studied.
It would not have been discreditable to my advocacy if I had submitted to a verdict.
My excellent friend proceeded on the good old lines of compensation advocacy with the same comfortable routine that one plays the old family rubber of threepenny points.
Let any one who has the least knowledge of advocacy consider what it was to carry that case to a successful issue, and then condemn me for not taking a judgeship if he will.
The art of advocacy was being exercised between an Irishman and a Scotchman, which made the English language quite a hotch-potch of equivocal words and a babel of sounds.
For two years he had lived on brown bread and dried apples, in order that he could save enough to buy a newspaper plant for the advocacy of reforms.
The Argus, on the other hand, had done yeoman service in the advocacy of the reform from the time that Tasmania had so successfully experimented with the system.
Politicians are so apt to take the line of least resistance, and when thousands of votes of small landowners are to be won through the advocacy of an exemption, exemptions there will be.
He desired to shape her character to the feminine of his own, and betrayed the surprise of a slight disappointment at her advocacy of her ideas.