Definitions of lobby [ˈlɒb i]

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Definition of 'lobby'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lobby
an entrance hall, corridor, or vestibule, as in a public building, often serving as an anteroom; foyer.

2.  lobby
a public room or hall adjacent to a legislative chamber.

3.  lobby
a group of persons who try to influence legislators or other public officials to vote or act in favor of a special interest.

4. (v.i.) lobby
to try to influence legislation or administrative decisions.

5. (v.t.) lobby
to try to influence the actions or votes of (legislators or other public officials).

6.  lobby
to urge or procure the passage of (legislation) by lobbying.

Etymology: (1545–55; < ML lobia, laubia covered way < Gmc *laubja (cf. OHG louppea, louba arbor, prob. der. of laubleaf ); cf. lodge)

Definition of 'lobby'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule
a large entrance or reception room or area

2. (noun) lobby
the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest

3. (verb) lobby, pressure group, third house
a group of people who try actively to influence legislation

4. (verb) lobby, buttonhole
detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors

Definition of 'lobby'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) lobby
a large area near the entrance in a hotel, office building, etc.
Meet me in the lobby in ten minutes.

2. lobby
a group that tries to persuade politicians to change sth
the anti-abortion lobby

3. (verb) lobby
to try to persuade politicians to change sth
They are lobbying for tax reform.; Lobby your state representatives.

Definition of 'lobby'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) lobby
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. (noun) lobby
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. (noun) lobby
an apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck

4. (noun) lobby
a confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard

5. (verb) lobby
to address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes

6. (verb) lobby
to urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill

Translation of 'lobby'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a (small) entrance-hall a hotel lobby.
Afrikaans: voorportaal	Arabic: صالة الدُّخول والإنتِظار	Bulgarian: преддверие
Brazilian: hall de entrada	Czech: hala, vestibul	German: die Vorhalle
Danish: lobby	Greek: προθάλαμος, αίθουσα αναμο	Spanish: vestíbulo
Estonian: vestibüül	Farsi: تسالن ورودی؛ سالن انتظار	Finnish: aula
French: hall	Hebrew: לוֹבִּי	Hindi: प्रतीक्षा-कक्ष
Croatian: predvorje hotela	Hungarian: előcsarnok, hall	Indonesian: lobi
Icelandic: forsalur, anddyri	Italian: ingresso, hall	Japanese: ロビー
Korean: 로비	Lithuanian: vestibiulis	Latvian: priekštelpa; foajē; vesti
Malay: lobi	Dutch: hal	Norwegian: vestibyle, foajé, entré
Polish: hall, westybul	Persian: سالن ورودی؛ سالن انتظار	Pashto: كورنى يا داخلى د انتظار خ
Portuguese: átrio	Romanian: vestibul, anticameră	Russian: вестибюль
Slovak: hala, vestibul	Slovenian: sprejemna dvorana	Serbian: predvorje
Swedish: vestibul, lobby, foajé	Thai: ห้องโถง	Turkish: antre, lobi
Taiwanese: 門廳	Ukrainian: вестибюль; фойє	Urdu: پیش گاہ
Vietnamese: hành lang	Chinese: 门厅
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