ひょうぼう

[標榜] ¶→標榜する

標榜
advocate
champion cause

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ひょうぼう【標榜】

¶ → 標榜する

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ひょうぼう【標榜】

～する profess 《oneself to be…》; adopt a platform [slogan, motto 《pl. ～(e)s》]; advocate [champion, espouse, sponsor] 《the cause of socialism》; stand for…; advertise 《a clinic as having a pediatric department》; call [designate] oneself 《an acupuncturist》.

●人道主義を標榜する claim to stand for humanitarian principles; advocate humanitarianism

・整形外科を標榜する declare that one's hospital has an orthopedics department [one is an orthopedics specialist]

・彼は内閣打倒を標榜して同志を糾合した. He gathered supporters around him on a platform of bringing down the cabinet.

標榜(診療)科名 an officially approved medical designation.