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What (who) is lobby - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Lobby (disambiguation)
Lobby
·noun A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
II. Lobby ·noun An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
III. Lobby ·vt To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
IV. Lobby ·vi To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
V. 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.
VI. 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.
lobby
¦ noun (plural lobbies)
1. a room out of which one or more other rooms or corridors lead, typically one near the entrance of a public building.
2. (in the UK) any of several large halls in the Houses of Parliament in which MPs may meet members of the public.
(also division lobby) each of two corridors in the Houses of Parliament to which MPs retire to vote.
3. a group of people seeking to influence legislators on a particular issue.
an organized attempt by members of the public to influence legislators.
¦ verb (lobbies, lobbying, lobbied) seek to influence (a legislator).
Derivatives
lobbyist noun
Origin
C16 (in the sense 'monastic cloister'): from med. L. lobia, lobium 'covered walk'.
lobby
I
n.
pressure group
1) an education; farm; labor; oil lobby
large hall
2) a hotel; theater lobby
3) in the lobby (let's meet in the lobby)
II
v.
1) to lobby actively
2) (D; intr.) to lobby against; for (to lobby against higher taxes; to lobby for a bill)
Wikipedia
Lobby
Lobby may refer to:
- Lobby (room), an entranceway or foyer in a building
- Lobbying, the action or the group used to influence a viewpoint to politicians
- Lobbying in the United States, specific to the United States
- Lobby (food), a thick stew made in Leigh, Greater Manchester and North Staffordshire, like Lancashire Hotpot
- Lobby (band), a Slovak Eurodance band
- The Lobby, (UK) parliamentary journalists receiving privileged political access in exchange for sourcing anonymity
- Lobby Hero, a play by Kenneth Lonergan
- Hotel Lobby, an oil painting on canvas by American realist painter Edward Hopper
- The Lobby (improv), an improvisational comedy group based in Southern California
- The Lobby, a documentary series by Al Jazeera
- The Lobby, a film by Fathia Absie
Examples of use of lobby
1. One person said that dozens had been wounded in the lobby, that the lobby was full.
2. Congress and lobby against the Iranian government.
3. That‘s a lobby with considerable bargaining potential.
4. Ambulances –– dozens of ambulances –– were rushing to the scene, were removing bodies that had been moved from inside the lobby to outside the lobby.
5. Hagee is the founder of the Christians United for Israel lobby, and as such received the blessing of the Jewish lobby AIPAC during its annual conference last year.