0 a person or organization that upholds (= defends) a law, a principle, or a decision that has been made: --
This was stated by a newspaper which is a great upholder of the whole trade union principle.
As upholders of the capitalist private enterprise system, perhaps they should not be in business.
The professional bodies are valued upholders of standards and an important safeguard of professional integrity.
The media picture themselves as the upholders of rectitude, but many members of the media have neither principles nor scruples.
He was a staunch upholder of the freedom of the individual and, as a corollary, was passionately opposed to compulsory metrication.
As upholder of our law and order, he must have regard to that which is lawful.
They were the great upholders of free speech.
But conscious of their state's image as an upholder of eternal justice, heads of the judiciary in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries did their best to resolve the differences.
