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UK
/lˈɒbi/
]
[ US /ˈɫɑbi/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɑbi/ ]
NOUN
- the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest
- an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying
- a large entrance or reception room or area
VERB
- detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
How To Use lobby In A Sentence
- The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
- He writes regularly to the council on environmental issues and has now turned lobbyist on the issue that most annoys him - dog mess along Rochdale Canal.
- The overall seaminess of that enterprise is so underreported that just last week, one of the Post's own reporters felt like they had to obtain a quote in order to get the dictionary definition of "lobbyist" into their story. Peter Orszag's Move From The White House To Citigroup Should Definitely Trouble You
- The 22-year-old arrived without huge fanfare or any of the media lobbying that normally accompanies the promotion of a fresh face.
- That still eludes much of the antipoverty lobby. Times, Sunday Times
- The lobby and restaurant are in the original castle building. Times, Sunday Times
- He might have caused a storm in a teacup in the corridors of the Westminster press lobby as journalists squabbled over who had the story, whether it was attributable and who had told The Sun anyway.
- We chatted happily in the lobby.
- I am lobbying pretty heavily for a spicy cranberry jelly from a jar.
- The lobbyists and the think tanks 'ghostwrite' our economic policies; the politicos just 'sign off' on them. Whatcha Gonna Do About Me?
