Definition of Lobby

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Definition of Lobby

Lobby

A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.

That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency.

An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.

A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.

To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.

To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.

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Lobby Quotations

I just want to lobby for God.
Billy Graham

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
Ralph Nader

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
Ralph Nader

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.
Maxine Waters

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?
Robert McChesney

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.
Bashar al-Assad

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.
Daniel Hannan

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
Robert McChesney

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
Beau Bridges

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.
Alan Autry

Lobby Translations

lobby in German is Interessengruppe

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