advocate
/ˈadvəkət/
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American sound/ˈadvəkət/
advocate
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ad - vo - cate -> advocate
Myanmar meaning
(v) ထောက်ခံသည်။ ရှေ့နေလိုက် (ပြော)သည်။ (n) ထောက်ခံသူ။ အားပေးသူ။ တရားရုံးရှေ့နေ။ ဗဟိုတရားရုံးရှေ့နေ။
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advocate / 'ædvǝkeÇt / v (fml )
ထောက်ခံသည်။ ရှေ့နေလိုက် (ပြော)သည်။ I advocate a policy of gradual reform. ❍ Do you advocate banning cars in the city centre? ❍ He had long advocated that the country should become a republic.
/'ædvǝkǝt / n
၁။ ~ (of sth) ထောက်ခံသူ။ အားပေးသူ။ a lifelong advocate of disarmament.
၂။ တရားရုံးရှေ့နေ။ ဗဟိုတရားရုံးရှေ့နေ။ Compare BARRISTER, SOLICITOR See also DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
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supporter, backer, promoter, believer, activist, campaigner, sponsor, advance, advise, apostle, argue for, attorney, back, be in corner, be in favor of, bless, bolster, boost, brace up, build up, campaign for, champion, counsel, countenance, defend, defender, encourage, exponent, expounder, favor, further, get on bandwagon, give a leg up, give a lift, go for, go to bat for, go with, hold with, justify, lawyer, plead for, pleader, plug, plump for, press for, promote, proponent, propose, proposer, push, recommend, ride shotgun for, root for, run interference for, say so, side, speak for, speaker, spokesperson, spread around, stump for, support, tout, uphold, upholder, urge, vindicate
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