Advocate
Advocate verb - To promote the interests or cause of.
Usage example: environmentalists advocating agricultural methods designed to slow the destruction of rain forests
Back is a synonym for advocate in action topic. In some cases you can use "Back" instead the word "Advocate" as a verb or a noun, when it comes to topics like support, recommend, protector, support idea or cause publicly. popular alternative
Back
Back verb - To promote the interests or cause of.
Usage example: she enthusiastically backed the plan to renovate and upgrade the school's facilities
Advocate is a synonym for back in support topic. You can use "Advocate" instead the word "Back" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as protector. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| female | female advocate | female back |
| true | true advocate | true back |
| strong | strong advocate | strong back |
| actual | actual advocate | actual back |
| Other adjectives: big, major, last. | ||
Common collocations
| people | advocate people | back people |
| system | advocate system | back system |
| government | advocate government | back government |
| theory | advocate theory | back theory |
| Other words: war. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Wrong Genre Savvy: For some reason, losing Project Managers often think that it's a great idea to bring back one person who they want to get fired, and one person (sometimes even two) as an "advocate" who they think will back them up in the boardroom and help to get the other person fired.
Source: Series / The Apprentice -
To say nothing of Brock Lesnar - the Authority don't like Lesnar or his advocate Paul Heyman and would much prefer the champion of the company was in their back pocket, but Brock was clearly a neccessary evil to get the WWE World Heavyweight title away from John Cena.
Source: Wrestling / The Authority -
Rape and Revenge: Lisbeth's advocate Nils Bjurman lures her to his apartment, where he sodomizes her with a sex toy, rapes and tortures her, then orders her to come back a week later.
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