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Bend a senator's ear, perhaps
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lobby
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor. 2 That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly. 3 A class or group of people who try to influence public officials; collectively, ...
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an entrance lobby/foyer (= an area at the entrance to a large building ) ▪ There was no sign of her in the entrance foyer. division lobbies (= the rooms where the vote takes place ) ▪ Some members supported the opposition ...
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.