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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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. Bill Clinton:

   What’s wrong with us that we can’t stand up to the NRA and the gun lobby?

2. Barack Obama:

   Of course, that's good for special interests who want to protect tax breaks for the most powerful, or the gun lobby, or environmental polluters -- but it's not good for our children. And regardless of our party affiliations, it's not good for our democracy.

3. John McCain:

   But I have to tell you ... the power of this maritime lobby is as powerful as anybody or any organization I have run up against in my political career. All I can do is appeal to the patron saint of lost causes and keep pressing and pressing and sooner or later you have to succeed.

4. President Joe Piemont:

   We won't let the care fall apart, but this is not an uncertainty that we could endure for a very long time, we're going to lobby through hospital associations and medical associations to admonish everybody that there needs to be a soft landing here.

5. Laurie Graham:

   I went to the lobby of the hotel, received the order. It was completely sealed and packaged. I got upstairs and we began to eat our food, and my husband was eating his fettuccine alfredo, and he took a bite and he thought it was hard chicken or some overcooked cheese and come to find out, it was a latex glove that had been melted into the food.

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