speak up for

speak up for someone or something

to speak in favor of someone or something. If anybody says bad things about me, I hope you speak up for me. I want to speak up for the rights of students.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aura	AWR-ə	English
Wilf	WILF	English
Blair	-	Scottish, English
Karolina	kah-raw-LEE-nah (Polish), kah-ro-LEE-nah (Swedish, German)	Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Lithuanian, German
Elpidios	-	Late Greek
Chibuike	-	Western African, Igbo