lobby in English

noun

1

a room providing a space out of which one or more other rooms or corridors lead, typically one near the entrance of a public building.

Clad in bright green glass tiles, the entrance lobby leads to a restful white panelled ante room.

synonyms: entrance hall, hallway, entrance, hall, vestibule, foyer, reception area

2

a group of people seeking to influence politicians or public officials on a particular issue.

members of the anti-abortion lobby

synonyms: special interest group, interest group, pressure group, movement, campaign, crusade, lobbyists, supporters, faction, camp

verb

1

seek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue.

it is recommending that booksellers lobby their representatives

synonyms: seek to influence, try to persuade, bring pressure to bear on, importune, sway, petition, solicit, appeal to, pressurize, campaign for, crusade for, press for, push for, ask for, call for, demand, promote, advocate, champion

noun

entrance hall, hallway, entrance, hall, vestibule, foyer, reception area
special interest group, interest group, pressure group, movement, campaign, crusade, lobbyists, supporters, faction, camp
entrance hall, vestibule, foyer, hall, anteroom, antechamber
pressure group, third house

verb

seek to influence, campaign for, buttonhole
seek to influence, try to persuade, bring pressure to bear on, importune, sway, petition, solicit, appeal to, pressurize
campaign for, crusade for, press for, push for, ask for, call for, demand, promote, advocate, champion
buttonhole

Use "lobby" in a sentence

1. In the lobby.

2. The ceiling in the lobby cracked.

3. Jerry: You mean "stakeout" the lobby?

4. Brabblingly Entrance lobby with plenty choice

5. There's an ATM in the lobby.

6. The lobby is decorated in pastels.

7. Farmers will lobby Congress for higher subsidies.

8. We chatted happily in the lobby.

9. Motel 6 lobby and my color printer.

10. The lobby is crawling with those creatures.

11. Diablo III, Metro Redux, Counterspy - The Lobby …

12. Yes, the house phone in the lobby

13. Environmental lobby groups successfully opposed the plan.

14. I'll meet you in the entrance lobby.

15. There's a flow chart in the lobby.

16. In the lobby I feel instantly bereft.

17. Angulateness Howard the invincible? Seriously powerful fun lobby

18. He set up this lobby of independent producers.

19. The anti-nuclear lobby is/are becoming stronger.

20. Reporters and photographers were crowded into the lobby.

21. We were requested to assemble in the lobby.

22. We have no AARP to lobby for us.

23. Mary is in the lobby of Asian Hotel.

24. A revolving door led into the hotel lobby.

25. C., lobby with links to high-tech companies.

26. A Nobel Prize winner, hounded by the religious lobby.

27. I met her in the lobby of the museum.

28. Villagers have organized a lobby for improved local facilities.

29. As you entered the lobby, there was an inscription:

30. Meanwhile a momentous event took place in the lobby.

31. The group tried to lobby the bill through.

32. They're heading through the lobby, towards the kitchen.

33. Ontario lobby group Clamouring for modern turbine noise regulations

34. Bear is behind the counter in the old lobby

35. The group is trying to lobby against higher taxes.

36. The lobby was like a passageway to a toilet.

37. Ontario lobby group Clamouring for modern turbine noise regulations

38. In the airport lobby, he kept staring at me.

39. I met him in a hotel lobby last Monday.

40. The ban on cigarette advertising will upset the tobacco lobby.

41. 9 She walked through the revolving door into the lobby.

42. She walked through the revolving door into the lobby.

43. 6 A revolving door led into the hotel lobby.

44. The film star held court in the hotel lobby.

45. Internet access in lobby. Lounges on ground floor for relaxation.

46. The stranglehold of the gun lobby is clearly being broken.

47. Tonight, we will strike in the lobby of the bank.

48. I also lobby statutory agencies, county councils and voluntary organisations.

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50. But anti hunt lobby say they won't go that far.