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advocacy

/ˈædvəkəsi/

B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Medicine noun

Support that helps a person express their views and defend their rights and interests.

An advocacy service was arranged so the patient could voice his wishes at the review meeting.

Topic: Mental health nursing in Medical English

Business noun

The active recommendation of a brand by satisfied customers.

The referral programme turned quiet satisfaction into vocal advocacy on social channels.

Topic: Marketing in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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