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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.
- 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?
- He said the campaign fully supported the legislation and would be lobbying for the United Nations and the African Union to encourage governments in programmes to demilitarise society. ANC Daily News Briefing
