📖 Определения и значения для слова advocate
📒 a person who supports or speaks in favour of somebody or of a public plan or action
- advocate for something/somebody an advocate for hospital workers
- advocate of something/somebody a staunch advocate of free speech
- an advocate of pacifism
📒 a person who defends somebody in court
- Solicitors often appear as advocates in the lower courts.
- Those charged should be represented by trained, qualified legal advocates.
📒 (in Scotland and South Africa) a lawyer who has the right to argue cases in higher courts
- the District Attorney
- counsel for the prosecution
- the Solicitor General