Definition of "advocates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advocate. (verb)
• Plural form of advocate. (noun)

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• "Strafford spoke a bitter criticism not only with regard to Maynard and Glyn, but with regard to the prevailing tone of the bar, when, describing the conduct of the advocates who managed his prosecution, he said: "Glynne and Maynard used me _like advocates_, but Palmer and Whitelock _like gentlemen_; and yet the latter left out nothing against me that was material to be urged against me.""
• "The ministry said that the United States is interfering in China's internal affairs, as well, and sending false signals to what it called the advocates of Taiwanese independence."
• "The proposed health-insurance bill from the House of Representatives refers to mentally disabled people as "retarded" - a term advocates, relatives and physicians find outdated and offensive."