Associate vs. Advocate — What's the Difference?

To connect in the mind or imagination

An advocate is a professional in the field of law. Different countries' legal systems use the term with somewhat differing meanings.

To connect or involve with a cause, group, or partner

To speak, plead, or argue in favor of

To correlate or connect logically or causally

Usage Problem To act as an advocate

To join in or form a league, union, or association

One that argues for a cause; a supporter or defender

To spend time socially; keep company

One that pleads in another's behalf; an intercessor

A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.

A lawyer.

An employee, especially one in a subordinate position,

Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.

A companion; a comrade.

Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.

One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.

A person who speaks in support of something, or someone.

A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.

A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.

Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status

(transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.

Having partial status or privileges

(transitive) To encourage support for something.

Following or accompanying; concomitant.

To engage in advocacy.

Joined with another or others and having lower status.

To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.

Having partial status or privileges.

To call a case before itself for decision.

Following or accompanying; concomitant.

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

Connected by habit or sympathy.

One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.

Christ, considered as an intercessor.

Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.

To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.

A companion; a comrade.

To act as advocate.

One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.

A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.

A lawyer who pleads cases in court

(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).

Push for something;

(intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.

Speak, plead, or argue in favour of;

(intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.

To join as a partner, ally, or friend.

(transitive) To connect or join together; combine.

(transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.

To endorse.

(mathematics) To be associative.

To accompany; to be in the company of.

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.

To connect or place together in thought.

To accompany; to keep company with.

To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.

Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.

Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.

Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.

A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.

A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.

One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy.

Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.

A person who joins with others in some activity;

A person who is frequently in the company of another;

Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another;

A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies

Make a logical or causal connection;

Keep company with; hang out with;

Bring or come into association or action;

Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status;