defend

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Backing, supporting & defending
adopt
advocacy
affirmation
ally yourself to/with someone
argumentation
bail out
bat
bet
buoy
commitment
over-favour
pander to someone/something
prop something up
provide
provide for someone
root
solidly
sustenance
underpin
wave/show/fly the flagidiom
champion
adjective, exclamation
Northern Englishinformaluk /ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/ us /ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/
excellent优秀的，第一流的，很好的

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Informal words for good
A-OK
amazeballs
apple pie
awesomesauce
badass
dank
jim-dandy
juicy
knock
knock spots off somethingidiom
like a bossidiom
out of sightidiom
plum
royally
rule OKidiom
safe
shabby
shit hot
sight
steal

champion | American Dictionary

champion
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtʃæm·pi·ən/

championnoun[C] (WINNER)

(short formchamp, us/ˈtʃæmp/)
someone or something, esp. a person or animal, that has beaten all other competitors in a competition:
a tennis champion

championnoun[C] (SUPPORT)

a person who enthusiastically supports, defends, or fights for a belief or principle:
a champion of free speech

champion

verb[ T ]us/ˈtʃæm·pi·ən/
He championed protection of the wilderness.

Examples of champion

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The regression results show a very clear picture: people with stronger postmodern values are much more likely to be champions of democracy.
A minority of health visitors and other public health practitioners have worked as partnership champions.
Two other champions entered and staged another fight.
Allegiance to fashion snobbery was quickly dissolved with ravers championing the rise of the blatantly pirated clothing that mutated into children's clothing and bland beachwear.
Rather, they championed capitalism, but from the perspective of an underdeveloped nation.
Precisely because these traditions ask so much of its citizens, their champions have always worried about the quality of the people.
If those in the past championed customary rights and democratic participation, these were still important historical lessons for contemporaries.
The biblical authority vested in these scriptural representations of heredity has not been lost on its champions.
Both are champions of freedom and gender equality.
In this situation the heritage becomes more hated than loved among those who should be its champions.
In so doing they championed artists and artistic styles of their own choosing.
Different models of service (age-related, integrated, specialist) pertain in different places, each with its own champions.
The champions were very clear that being near the same age as the participants was essential to the success of their role.
There were several reasons for the union's championing such a takeover.
Within the national government, capital market-oriented reforms lacked political champions willing to marshal the necessary political support for consistent and coherent reform efforts.
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amateur champion
A former amateurchampion, he turned professional in 1997, reaching the top makuuchi division in 2001.
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