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Definition of Lobbying
1. lobby [v] - See also: lobby
Medical Definition of Lobbying
1. A process whereby representatives of a particular interest group attempt to influence governmental decision makers to accept the policy desires of the lobbying organization. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobbying
Literary usage of Lobbying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"lobbying. See quotation 1841. 1832 Perhaps I shall have a case of congressional
lobbying, by which I can make it a jaunt of pleasure and profit. ..."
2. The Lives and Opinions of Benj'n Franklin Butler: United States District by William Lyon Mackenzie (1845)
"lobbying, DESPONDING, ELECTIONEERING, BRIBING AND BARGAINING. ... or early in
the spring Perhaps I shall hare a ease (/CONGRESSIONAL lobbying, by ir/iif/iI ..."
3. The Law of the Federal and State Constitutions of the United States: With an by Frederic Jesup Stimson (1908)
"lobbying is declared a felony by the Constitution in two States.11 So,no State
or county officer shall accept a fee, reward, etc., for lobbying.12 lobbying ..."
4. The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore (1921)
"II lobbying I HAVK left until now all consideration of a department which had
been, almost from the very beginning, of great importance to the Woman's Party ..."
5. The New Voter: Things He and She Ought to Know about Politics and Citizenship by Charles Willis Thompson (1918)
"But lobbying isn't gone. And some day you'll be doing it yourself. ... The reason
why lobbying has such an unpleasant significance is because bad bills have ..."
6. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"CHAPTER XLVII ILLEGAL AGREEMENTS: AGREEMENTS TENDING TO CORRUPTION OR IMMORALITY
Agreements tending to official or personal corruption 1726 lobbying ..."
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