"devil’s advocate" meaning in Anglais

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Noun

IPA: \ˈdɛv.ɪlz ˌæd.vəˌkɪt\ Audio: En-au-devil's advocate.ogg Forms: devil’s advocates [plural]
  1. Avocat du diable. Tags: rhetoric
    Sense id: fr-devil’s_advocate-en-noun-FEia8Dbp Categories (other): Lexique en anglais de la rhétorique
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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