LOBBY
\lˈɒbi], \lˈɒbi], \l_ˈɒ_b_i]\
Definitions of LOBBY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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a large entrance or reception room or area
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a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
By Princeton University
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a large entrance or reception room or area
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a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
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A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
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To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
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To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
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A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
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To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
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To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
By Noah Webster.
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A small hall or waiting room; passage opening into an apartment; legislative hall, etc.; persons who try to influence the votes of members of a law-making body.
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To try to get the votes of members of a legislature or law-making body.
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Lobbied.
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Lobbying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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