Definitions for lobby
ˈlɒb ilob·by

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule(noun)

   a large entrance or reception room or area

2. lobby(noun)

   the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest

3. lobby, pressure group, third house(verb)

   a group of people who try actively to influence legislation

4. lobby, buttonhole(verb)

   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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1. lobby(Noun)

   scouse (from lobscouse)

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Lobby(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge.]

2. Lobby(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge.]

3. Lobby(noun)

   an apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck

   Etymology: [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge.]

4. Lobby(noun)

   a confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard

   Etymology: [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge.]

5. Lobby(verb)

   to address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes

   Etymology: [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge.]

6. Lobby(verb)

   to urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill

   Etymology: [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge.]

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1. Lobby

   A lobby is a room in a building which is used for entry from the outside. Sometimes referred to as a foyer or an entrance hall. Many office buildings, hotels and skyscrapers go to great lengths to decorate their lobbies to create the right impression and convey an image, or "power lobby". Since the mid-1980s there has been a growing trend to think of lobbies as more than just ways to get from the door to the elevator, but instead as social spaces and places of commerce. Some research has even been done to develop scales to measure lobby atmosphere in order to improve hotel lobby design. Many places that offer public services, such as a doctor's office, use their lobbies as more of a waiting room for the people waiting for a certain service. In these types of lobbies it is common for there to be comfortable furniture, such as couches and lounge chairs, so that the customer will be able to wait in comfort. Also, there may be television sets, books, and/or magazines to help the customer pass time as they wait to be served. Supertall skyscrapers can often have one or more of what is known as a sky lobby, which is an intermediate floor where people can change from an express elevator that stops only at the sky lobby to a local elevator which stops at every floor within a segment of the building.

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1. Lobby

   lob′i, n. a small hall or waiting-room: a passage serving as a common entrance to several apartments: the ante-chamber of a legislative hall, frequented by outsiders for the purpose of influencing votes.—ns. Lobb′ying, frequenting the lobby to collect political intelligence, &c.; Lobb′yist, Lobb′y-mem′ber, a journalist, &c., who frequents a lobby in the interest of some cause or of a newspaper. [Low L. lobia—Middle High Ger. loube (Ger. laube), a portico, arbour—laub, a leaf.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. lobby

   A name sometimes given to an apartment close before the great cabin bulk-head.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lobby' in Nouns Frequency: #2847

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lobby in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lobby in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of lobby in a Sentence

1. State Department:

   The ultimate responsibility, of course, rests on the Cabinet official. In this case, it'd be the secretary of state, but we do it in close coordination with DOD. … The only considerations that are factored into the foreign military sales program is the furtherance of foreign policy objectives of the United States of America and not the efforts by external groups to lobby, as you say, or to influence that decision.

2. John Morse:

   No one in Colorado needs to fear what happened to us, the country is starting to get that the gun lobby has no interest whatsoever in any kind of common sense things.

3. Robert White:

   The governor and others have knuckled under to the threats of big business and the LGBT lobby group.

4. Archbishop Charles Chaput:

   We don't want to provide a platform at the meeting for people to lobby for positions contrary to the life of our Church.

5. Bill Clinton:

   America's always had to lobby for American-made airplanes, i don't think they (donated) to make the government like them better. We do like them better. All Americans are grateful that there are American jobs and businesses around the world.

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