advocacy
Meaning of advocacy
noun
- public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy.
his outspoken advocacy of the agreement has won no friends
- the profession or work of a legal advocate.
solicitors should have a record of advocacy in the lower courts
late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin advocatia, from advocare ‘summon, call to one's aid’ (see advocate).
Information about advocacy
- It is a name.
- The plural form of advocacy is: advocacies.
- Languages in which advocacy is used:
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Hyphenation of advocacy
ad-vo-cacy
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- advocacy is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
advocacy synonyms
Meaning protagonism:
Meaning an act of adopting or supporting a cause, belief, or way of life:
Meaning adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life):
Meaning the action of approving something:
Meaning showing or feeling approval of someone or something:
Meaning the action of endorsing someone or something:
Meaning declare one's public approval or support of:
Meaning a suggestion or proposal as to the best course of action, especially one put forward by an authoritative body:
Meaning put forward (someone or something) with approval as being suitable for a particular purpose or role:
Meaning help or support:
Meaning bearing all or part of the weight of something:
Meaning activity that supports or encourages a cause, venture, or aim:
Meaning support or actively encourage (a cause, venture, etc.); further the progress of:
Meaning a contest for the position of champion in a sport or game:
Meaning vigorously support or defend the cause of:
Meaning give official permission or approval for (an action):
Meaning the action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered:
Meaning the keen promotion of a person, organization, or cause:
Translation of advocacy
- Spanish: derecho, abogacía
- German: Anwaltschaft
- French: barreau
- Italian: avvocatura
- Portuguese: advocacia
Words that rhyme with advocacy
coefficacy, complicacy, delicacy, efficacy, graphicacy, hyperdelicacy, indelicacy, inefficacy, intricacy, nonefficacy, nonprolificacy, overdelicacy, pervicacy, prolificacy, epicaricacy, equivocacy, nonadvocacy, preadvocacy, univocacy
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