say it: AD-vuh-kuh-see
advocacy is a noun meaning "active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something". It carries one recorded sense.
active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for advocacy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.