Associate vs. Advocate
Associate and Advocate Definitions
Associate
To connect in the mind or imagination
"I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn" (John Keats).
Advocate
To speak, plead, or argue in favor of
Advocate a vegan diet.
Associate
To connect or involve with a cause, group, or partner
Wasn't she associated with the surrealists?.
Advocate
Usage Problem To act as an advocate
Advocated for her patients.
Advocated for more stringent crime laws.
Associate
To correlate or connect logically or causally
Asthma is associated with air pollution.
Advocate
One that argues for a cause; a supporter or defender
An advocate of civil rights.
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Associate
To join in or form a league, union, or association
The workers associated in a union.
Advocate
One that pleads in another's behalf; an intercessor
Advocates for abused children and spouses.
Associate
To spend time socially; keep company
Associates with her coworkers on weekends.
Advocate
A lawyer.
Associate
A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.
Advocate
Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
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Associate
An employee, especially one in a subordinate position,
Advocate
Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
Associate
A companion; a comrade.
Advocate
A person who speaks in support of something, or someone.
Associate
One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
Advocate
A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
Since she started working with her advocate, she has become much more confident.
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Associate
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
Advocate
(transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
Associate
Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status
An associate editor.
Advocate
(transitive) To encourage support for something.
I like trees, but I do not advocate living in them.
Associate
Having partial status or privileges
An associate member of the club.
Advocate
To engage in advocacy.
We have been advocating for changes in immigration law.
Associate
Following or accompanying; concomitant.
Advocate
To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
Associate
Joined with another or others and having lower status.
The associate editor is someone who has some experience in editing but not sufficient experience to qualify for a senior post.
Advocate
To call a case before itself for decision.
Associate
Having partial status or privileges.
He is an associate member of the club.
Advocate
One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
Associate
Following or accompanying; concomitant.
Advocate
One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.
Associate
Connected by habit or sympathy.
Associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions
Advocate
Christ, considered as an intercessor.
We have an Advocate with the Father.
Associate
A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
Advocate
To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
To advocate the cause of thy client.
This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated.
Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause.
Associate
Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
Advocate
To act as advocate.
Associate
A companion; a comrade.
Advocate
A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
Associate
One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
Advocate
A lawyer who pleads cases in court
Associate
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
Advocate
Push for something;
The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day
Associate
(algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
Advocate
Speak, plead, or argue in favour of;
The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house
Associate
(intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
Associate
(intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
She associates with her coworkers on weekends.
Associate
To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
He associated his name with many environmental causes.
Associate
(transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
Particles of gold associated with other substances
Associate
(transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
Associate
To endorse.
Associate
(mathematics) To be associative.
Associate
To accompany; to be in the company of.
Associate
To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.
Associate
To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.
Associate
To connect or place together in thought.
He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
Associate
To accompany; to keep company with.
Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.
Associate
To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.
Associate
To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.
Associate
Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.
While I descend . . . to my associate powers.
Associate
Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.
Associate
Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.
Associate
A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.
Associate
A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.
Associate
One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.
Associate
Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.
The one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it.
Associate
A person who joins with others in some activity;
He had to consult his associate before continuing
Associate
A person who is frequently in the company of another;
Drinking companions
Comrades in arms
Associate
Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another;
First was the lightning and then its thunderous associate
Associate
A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
Associate
Make a logical or causal connection;
I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind
Colligate these facts
I cannot relate these events at all
Associate
Keep company with; hang out with;
He associates with strange people
She affiliates with her colleagues
Associate
Bring or come into association or action;
The churches consociated to fight their dissolution
Associate
Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status;
An associate member
An associate professor
