'Lobby' definitions:
Definition of 'lobby'
From: WordNet
noun
A large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule]
noun
The people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest
noun
A group of people who try actively to influence legislation [syn: lobby, pressure group, third house]
verb
Detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors [syn: lobby, buttonhole]
Definition of 'Lobby'
From: GCIDE
- Lobby \Lob"by\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lobbied; p. pr. & vb. n. Lobbying.] To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes; in an extended sense, to try to influence decision-makers in any circumstance. [U.S.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lobby'
From: GCIDE
- Lobby \Lob"by\, v. t. To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill; -- also used with the legislators as object; as, to lobby the state legislatuire for protection. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lobby'
From: GCIDE
- Lobby \Lob"by\, n.; pl. Lobbies. [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge.]
- 1. (Arch.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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; hence: any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency; a group of lobbyists for a particular cause; as, the drug industry lobby. [U. S.] [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 3. (Naut.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Agric.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard. [1913 Webster]
- Lobby member, a lobbyist. [Humorous cant, U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lobby'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- access,
- act on,
- advocate,
- approach,
- bad influence,
- bear upon,
- big wheel,
- blandish,
- cajole,
- call on,
- call upon,
- coax,
- constitute,
- corridor,
- court,
- decree,
- draw,
- draw on,
- eminence grise,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- entrance,
- entrance hall,
- entranceway,
- entry,
- entryway,
- exert influence,
- exhort,
- filibuster,
- five-percenter,
- foyer,
- friend at court,
- galilee,
- get cozy with,
- get the floor,
- good influence,
- gray eminence,
- hall,
- hallway,
- have the floor,
- heavyweight,
- hidden hand,
- high-pressure,
- importune,
- influence,
- influence peddler,
- influencer,
- ingroup,
- insist,
- insist upon,
- jawbone,
- key,
- kill,
- kingmaker,
- lead on,
- legislate,
- legislative lobby,
- lobby through,
- lobbyer,
- lobbyist,
- logroll,
- lords of creation,
- magnetize,
- make advances,
- make overtures,
- make up to,
- man of influence,
- manipulator,
- nag,
- narthex,
- open sesame,
- ordain,
- parliamentary agent,
- pass,
- persuade,
- pigeonhole,
- plead with,
- pocket,
- portal,
- portico,
- powers that be,
- press,
- pressure,
- pressure group,
- promote,
- propylaeum,
- pull strings,
- push,
- put in force,
- put through,
- railroad through,
- Rasputin,
- reception room,
- recommend,
- registered lobbyist,
- roll logs,
- sinister influence,
- soft-soap,
- special interests,
- special-interest group,
- special-interest lobby,
- stoa,
- Svengali,
- sway,
- sweet-talk,
- table,
- take the floor,
- the Establishment,
- threshold,
- urge,
- very important person,
- vestibule,
- veto,
- VIP,
- wheedle,
- wheeler-dealer,
- wire-pull,
- wire-puller,
- work on,
- yield the floor