0 past simple and past participle of champion
1 to support, defend, or fight for a person, belief, right, or principle enthusiastically:
He has championed constitutional reform for many years.
He persistently championed a larger structural involvement from the federal government to provide better economic opportunities for the freedmen.
Rather, they championed capitalism, but from the perspective of an underdeveloped nation.
The intelligentsia's solution to foreign domination of the labour force, too, championed state intervention.
If those in the past championed customary rights and democratic participation, these were still important historical lessons for contemporaries.
As the study progressed, the results were regularly but informally presented back to the design manager, who championed the collaboration.
How might we interpret this consistent pattern displayed on three tasks from the heuristics and biases literature where alternative task construals have been championed?
To resolve this dilemma, they championed state regulation of foreign economic interests.
In so doing they championed artists and artistic styles of their own choosing.