lobby
[noun]
Synonyms:
- corridor, entrance hall, foyer, hallway, passage, porch, vestibule
- pressure group
[verb]
Synonyms:
- campaign, influence, persuade, press, pressure, promote, push, urge

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I. lob‧by¹ /ˈlɒbi $ ˈlɑːbi/ noun (plural lobbies) [countable]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Medieval Latin; Origin: lobium 'covered way for walking']

1. a wide passage or large hall just inside the entrance to a public building Synonym : foyer:
a hotel lobby
I’ll meet you in the entrance lobby.

2.
a) a hall in the British parliament where members of parliament and the public meet
b) one of the two passages in the British parliament where members go to vote for or against a bill

3. [also + plural verb British English] a group of people who try to persuade a government that a particular law or situation should be changed:
the anti-foxhunting lobby
a powerful environmental lobby group

4. an attempt to persuade a government to change a law, make a new law etc:
a mass lobby of Parliament by women’s organizations

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. lobby² verb (past tense and past participle lobbied, present participle lobbying, third person singular lobbies) [intransitive and transitive]
to try to persuade the government or someone with political power that a law or situation should be changed
lobby for/against
The group is lobbying for a reduction in defence spending.
lobby somebody to do something
We’ve been lobbying our state representative to support the new health plan.
—lobbyist noun [countable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

lobby
noun
ADJ. powerful, strong a powerful anti-smoking lobby
mass | anti-abortion, anti-hunt, environmental, industrial, nuclear, political, etc.
VERB + LOBBY mount, organize
LOBBY + NOUN group
PREP. ~ against Many groups have together mounted a lobby against cuts in hospitals.
~ for Villagers have organized a lobby for improved local facilities.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

lobby
verb
ADV. actively, hard | successfully
PREP. against Head teachers have been lobbying hard against education cuts.
for The group successfully lobbied for changes in the law.
on behalf of The organization has been set up to lobby the government on behalf of all the people who have lost their pensions.
PHRASES intense/intensive lobbying The decision followed months of intense lobbying of UN officials.
political lobbying The group achieved its aims after months of political lobbying.

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