A lobby is a large waiting room or reception area. If you're waiting for an appointment in a lobby, maybe you'll get lucky and find a good magazine or even a peppermint candy.
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.
Noun
a large entrance or reception room or area
Noun
a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
Verb
detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an
old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
n.
A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or
other fencing, near the farmyard.
v. i.
To address or solicit members of a legislative body in
the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
v. t.
To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members
of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
Lobby
Lobby
Lobby
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.
To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body;
Usage Examples
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.
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Other Usage ExamplesI just want to lobby for God.
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.
As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
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