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lobbyist

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who tries to persuade legislators to vote for bills that the lobbyists favor

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lobbyist , originally titled Angel , was a 2007 South Korean television series produced by Korea Pictures International, Inc. that aired on SBS . Budgeted at , overseas filming locations included the United States and Kyrgyzstan . It starred Song Il-gook ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lobbyist \Lob"by*ist\, n. A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.

Usage examples of lobbyist.

She appointed lobbyists fresh from their hitches with paper, asbestos, chemical, and oil companies to run each of the principal agency departments.

Although I interviewed close to twenty sources in the oil and ethanol industries, including lobbyists, engineers, lawyers, consultants, environmental toxicologists, and other professionals, not one individual consented to have his or her name mentioned in connection with this book.

Freeport McMoRan, which has the largest gold-mining operation in the world in Indonesia, in Irian Jaya, are you putting pressure, since Freeport is such a major lobbyist in Congress on behalf of Indonesia, to change that policy and to support self-determination for the people of East Timor?

Bunch of suits down from Sacramento, lobbyists, politicians, one time the Vice President, secret service yada yada.

Congress exempt themselves from the laws they impose on us, pass their midnight pay raises, overdraw their accounts at the House Bank, and then take a junket to some exotic Caribbean island with some lobbyists.

Linda Fisher, a former lobbyist for Monsanto, and Superfund was run by Marianne Horinko, a lobbyist and consultant to polluters, including the Koch Petroleum Group and Koch Industries.

He or she will also be free to pig out at campaign fund-raising wingdings that are paid for by lobbyists.

The antipoverty group lacks the 8,000 pounds a month to hire an LLM or other professional consultants, so Baker and his colleagues must themselves act as lobbyists on behalf of their low-income constituents.

I know it sounds cynical, but antismoking lobbyists are perhaps the most ineffectual bunch of yahoos who ever walked the face of the earth.

No apple wholesaler or grocery chain VIP or apple lobbyist or state tourism official would ever sit at my table thinking the McGillens of Chocinaw County had not returned to their former glory, or that I was an unsophisticated Daisy Mae with a few apples to sell.

Possibly you prefer the blandishments of a lobbyist to the opinion of a practical cowman like Sanders.

For starters, the sugar barons could save millions by cutting back on lawyers, lobbyists, yachts, polo ponies.

When the Everglades Coalition met this weekend in Key Largo, the conference drew nationally known conservationists, biologists, planners, lobbyists and water experts.

Santa Fe was the state capital and attracted a large number of alcoholics who were legislators or lobbyists, plus oilmen, cattlemen and tourists.

It describes how some state legislators have accepted free vacations provided by lobbyists from major utilities, auto dealers, the hotel industry, Big Agriculture and insurance firms.