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Definition of Lobby
1. Verb. Detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors.
2. Noun. A large entrance or reception room or area.
Group relationships: Building, Edifice
Specialized synonyms: Narthex
Generic synonyms: Room
3. Noun. The people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest.
4. Noun. A group of people who try actively to influence legislation.
Generic synonyms: Political Entity, Political Unit
Specialized synonyms: National Rifle Association, Nra
Derivative terms: Lobbyist
Definition of Lobby
1. n. A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.
2. v. i. To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
3. v. t. To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
Definition of Lobby
1. Noun. An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor. ¹
2. Noun. A class or group of people who try to lobby or influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive transitive) To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause. ¹
4. Noun. (informal) scouse (from lobscouse) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lobby
1. to attempt to influence legislators [v -BIED, -BYING, -BIES]
Medical Definition of Lobby
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Origin: LL. Lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG.louba, G. Laube, arbor. See Lodge.
1. A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.
2. That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency.
3. An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobby
Literary usage of Lobby
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1895)
"lobbyists are journalists who frequent the lobby of the House of Commons, ...
One door leads to a short corridor connecting the lobby with the fine ..."
2. Reminiscences by Justin McCarthy (1899)
"CHAPTER XXXII IN THE lobby THE reader will hardly need to be told that, when I
ask him to take his stand in the lobby, I mean the Inner lobby of the House ..."
3. The Lesson of Popular Government by Gamaliel Bradford (1899)
"It is the lobby which controls legislatures to-day. If any law demanded by the
people at large, or even by a majority of the lawmaking body, is defeated or ..."
4. Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson by Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (1918)
"THE TARIFF lobby (May 26, 1913) STATEMENT GIVEN TO THE PRESS I think that the
public ought to know the extraordinary exertions being made by the lobby in ..."
5. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"These persons attend the lobby of the House daily, talk with members, form parties,
invite them to dinners and suppers, &c.—Buckingham, 'America,' ii. 421. ..."
6. The United States Post Office: Its Past Record, Present Condition, and by Daniel Calhoun Roper (1917)
"This is the post- office lobby, and no Government office or place BO thoroughly
... The lobby is the principal point at which the postal service touches the ..."
7. State Government in the United States by Arthur Norman Holcombe (1916)
"REGULATION OF THE lobby The most difficult of the problems that must be solved,
... is that created by the pernicious activities of the lobby. ..."
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