to advocate for change
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4.5
- phrasal verb
:
abogar por el cambio
- Clearly you've become an advocate for change in our society.
- become a powerful advocate for change
Examples
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Phil, thank you for being an outspoken advocate for change, science, and rationality.
Blog text (30) -
School counseling programs are presented as a vehicle for targeting alienating factors and school counselors as advocates for change.
Academic text (2011) -
I want to be an advocate for change and want to be an ally and feel that I'm useful here.
Academic text (2006) -
Then you won't remain a victim, but an advocate for change.
Blog text (18) -
In order for the world to hear our voices, we must be brave enough to let them be heard, so we write to advocate for change.
Academic text (2012) -
And he started to advocate for changes in nutritional policy in Brooklyn with the hospitals and with the public schools.
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We plan to advocate for changes in local (Baltimore and New Orleans) and national policy that supports positive father involvement, healthy families, and community development.
Blog text (2) -
The attorneys who make their living representing consumer debtors, in contrast, are well situated to understand the implications of bankruptcy law for consumers and to advocate for change.
Academic text (2017) -
For over a decade, the Kenya Land Alliance, a network of civil society organizations working with pastoralists, slum dwellers, and the landless, advocated for change and raised the voices and interests of the excluded in the national dialogue.
Academic text (2009) -
After years of campaigning, she decided to advocate for change in the education system, urging for more resources and support for students.
Synonyms
343
3.7
To support a cause or policy in public
69
3.9
Publicly support a cause, policy, or idea
11
5.6
To try to make political or social change
Antonyms
How Strongly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning is directly built from its parts: 'advocate' (to support), 'for' (in favor of), and 'change' (making things different), so a learner knowing these words can infer 'to publicly support reforms'. This verb + preposition + noun composition is common across languages and follows standard English patterns, so it should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Advocate for change paints a simple picture: a person with a megaphone or at a meeting speaking to push a new idea—advocate is the speaker and change is what they want to make better. So it means 'to publicly support or argue for improvements'.