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lobbying

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Word definitions for lobbying in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lobbying (also lobby ) is the act of attempting to influence decisions made by officials in a government , most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies . Lobbying is done by many types of people, associations and organized groups, including ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of one who lobbies. vb. (present participle of lobby English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...

Usage examples of lobbying.

Dick Artemus would crinkle his face as if he'd just stepped in dog shit, as if lobbying was the most loathsome job in the universe.

Antony Barnett, Britain’s best investigative journalist, got a tip that lobbying firms close to Blair’s New Labour Party government were getting their hands on inside information to pass on to their clients.

Big business would provide the gilded glue, shepherded by the lobbying firm set up by Liddle and Draper, GPC.

The government's policy has to swing like an erratic pendulum from group to group, hitting some and favoring others, at the whim of any given moment—and so grotesque a profession as lobbying (selling "influence") becomes a full-time job.

But privately he suspected that both the glass eyeball episode and the desecration of the BMW were connected to his lobbying business.

Some of Palmer's lobbying clients were tolerable in small doses, but Desie couldn't stand the politicians with whom her husband avidly fraternized.

To avoid the unappetizing prospect of competitive bidding, Lester/Lestorino had procured the lobbying services of Palmer Stoat, whose sway with Miami-Dade commissioners was well known.

And afterward they would all say it never would have come together except for the wizardly lobbying of Palmer Stoat.

His attention was broken by something poking him between his legs—the Labrador, lobbying for a handout.

Tia backed her brawn, and she was lobbying with CS and the Lab Schools to help.

There had been some lobbying to name its three small companions after Shavva, Liu, and Turnien, the original EEC landing party, but no decision had yet been made at the monthly naming sessions held around the evening campfire after the more formal official sittings of the council.

We’d been lobbying to displace positronics in Union Station since the proposal to go that way first came up.

Now, I understand as well as you that having positronics there was political, not practical, so our lobbying was directed at those people in government responsible for deciding such things.

Kennedy's lobbying, and his own machinations, had swung public opinion just enough.

The NRA, whose aim is to guarantee enough guns for every maniac in the country, has launched a new lobbying campaign to persuade Congress to repeal the machine-gun legislation.