Advocacy Definition

ădvə-kə-sē
noun
The act of pleading or arguing in favor of something, such as a cause, idea, or policy; active support.
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The act of advocating, or speaking or writing in support (of something)
Webster's New World
Active support for a legal cause by argument and persuasion.
Webster's New World Law
The definition of advocacy is the act of speaking on the behalf of or in support of another person, place, or thing.
An example of an advocacy is a non-profit organization that works to help women of domestic abuse who feel too afraid to speak for themselves.
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The profession of an advocate.

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advocacy
Plural:
advocacies

Advocacy Sentence Examples

  • I asked Yes, or a victim's advocacy group.

  • Perhaps the greatest service he rendered to his party was his consistent advocacy of the freedom of the press.

  • The policy of peace which Suffolk pursued was just and wise; he foresaw from the first the personal risk to which its advocacy exposed him.

  • In 1821 he was a member of the committee appointed to inquire into the causes of the agricultural distress then prevailing, and the proposed relaxation of the corn laws embodied in the report was understood to have been chiefly due to his strenuous advocacy.

  • His advocacy of liberal and anti-clerical principles both from his chair and in the press made him bitter enemies, but he retained his position until his death on the 11 th of February 1887.

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