| Definitions of 'lobby' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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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
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| Definitions of 'lobby' |
Webster Dictionary |
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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
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