lobby
/ˈlɑ.bi/ verb C2- To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause. · For years, pro-life groups have continued to lobby hard for restrictions on abortion.· 2002, Jim Hightower, in Wikiquote The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
He/she/it lobbies · Past lobbied · Past participle lobbied · -ing form lobbying
Verb forms
- Base form
- lobby
- He/she/it
- lobbies
- Past
- lobbied
- Past participle
- lobbied
- -ing form
- lobbying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
On reaching the spacious lobby above, they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room, when last at Pemberley.
Now, for my part, I met them in the lobby after the conclusion of the piece; and hang me, if I can guess where you took your notions of the other world from.
We drive down Broadway to Wallack’s at a gallop, where her mother and a box party will be waiting for us in the lobby.
After giving some directions to Ali, who stood in the lobby, the count took Albert’s arm.
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