All 8 Uses

advocate
in
Outcasts United
(Edited)

As an advocate of life as it was in a simple southern town, Swaney fit the part.
Chpt 3

advocate = public supporter
Eventually, the patience of the resettlement officials and refugee advocates at the meeting wore down.
Chpt 3

advocates = public supporters
Some refugee advocates in the crowd began to attack the residents as callous, and even as racist.
Chpt 3
Art Hansen, a professor of migration studies at nearby Clark Atlanta University and a volunteer on the community center board in those days, said that he and other advocates for the refugees had begun to think of the community center as a kind of "refugee town hall."
Chpt 5
He appointed close friends and family to government positions, began to jail political dissidents and human rights advocates, and prevented the United Nations from investigating the slaughter of thousands of refugees in eastern Rwanda, for which his own men were responsible.
Chpt 6
Separated from each other and half a world away, they could not advocate for their jailed husbands as effectively as if they stayed together nearby.
Chpt 6 *

advocate = speak on behalf of and work for
Perrin was an unlikely advocate for a multiethnic congregation.
Chpt 19 *

advocate = spokesperson (public supporter)
She was no advocate for the refugees.
Chpt 20

advocate = public supporter

Definitions:

(1) (advocate as in: to advocate)
to recommend or publicly support (someone or something)
(2) (advocate as in: an advocate supporting)
a person who publicly supports and works to advance a cause

or more rarely:

someone acting in the role of a defense lawyer in England's past and in some jurisdictions today
(3) (advocate as in: an advocate in court)
a lawyer or officer of the court in some jurisdictions in Europe, colonial America, and the military
(4) (devil's advocate as in: I'll play the devil's advocate)
a person who takes an unpopular position to encourage debate or test ideas
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)