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Seek to influence; room
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lobby
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lobby \Lob"by\, n.; pl. Lobbies . [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge .] (Arch.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lobby or lobbies is a traditional beef and potato stew or broth from Stoke-on-Trent .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom , antechamber , entrance hall , hall , foyer , vestibule ] a group of people who try actively to influence legislation [syn: pressure group , third house ] v. detain in conversation by or as if ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"seek to influence legislation," 1826, American English, from lobby (n.). Related: Lobbied ; lobbying .
Usage examples of lobby.
I could hear their voices, full of excitement -- but the acoustics of the place made it impossible to get a good fix on the cries that were bounding back and forth across the lobby.
A large sign in the lobby of the hotel directed him to the fifth-floor headquarters of the Tonsil, Adenoid and Vas Deferens Society.
City advocates could cry bloody murder if you took one position, while the agribusiness lobby would come after you if you took the other.
John Grady and told him that it was all right and that far worse things than horses had passed through that hotel lobby and John Grady looked at the clerk and then went out and untied the horse and led it in.
SOON AS the door to the apartment opened and Amad exited, an MI5 agent passed through the lobby and stared at the elevator button.
When he hit the lobby he found Anadem sprawled on the chaise in her office.
I crossed the small empty lobby, Arista appeared out of the shadows, suave and immaculate.
As I crossed the small empty lobby, Arista appeared out of the shadows, suave and immaculate.
While Cummings turned to speak to his patient, Asey went on into the lobby and rang the hand - bell that stood on the desk.
Cummings, still talking with his patient, looked up in surprise as Asey emerged from the lobby.
In the lower House were certain bedaubed walls, in the basest style of imitation, which made him feel faintly sick, not to speak of a lobby adorned with artless prints and photographs of eminent defunct Congressmen that was all too serious for a joke and too comic for a Valhalla.
Marcus Beld showed no hesitation when he walked into the lobby of the apartment house.
EUNICE was alone in the apartment when a call from the lobby announced that Marcus Beld was downstairs.
The group halted at the end of the lobby, where Commander bn Bem and the odher Pandronian soldiers were separated from Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
A receptionist in the lobby was buffing her nails under a huge portrait of His Majesty.