Definizione monolingua

espouse

espouse (third-person singular simple present espouses, present participle espousing, simple past and past participle espoused)

1. (transitive) To become/get married to.
2. (transitive) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
   • 1998, William Croft, Event Structure in Argument Linking, in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37

     Although Dowty’s proposal is attractive from the point of view of the alternative argument linking theory that I am espousing, since it eschews the use of thematic roles and thematic role hierarchies, […], but it still has some drawbacks.

Definizione dizionario espouse

abbracciare

appoggiare

conservare

continuare

fiancheggiare

poggiare

sostenere

sposare

Altri significati:

become married to

(transitive) To become/get married to.

(transitive) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).

accept, support, take as one’s own