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lobby English

Meaning lobby meaning

What does lobby mean?
Definitions in simple English

lobby Noun

— A lobby is the entrance of a building. Please wait in the lobby for the tour guide. — A lobby is a group of people who try to change the policy of a government. The U.S. anti-gun lobby is trying to change gun laws.

lobby Verb

— When you lobby something, you attempt to change a decision or policy. The group lobbied to have the law repealed.

lobby

— noun (= anteroom) a large entrance or reception room or area — verb detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors — noun the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest — noun a group of people who try actively to influence legislation

Synonyms lobby synonyms

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lobby English » English

foyer hall vestibule entrance hall anteroom pressure group lounge hallway antechamber third house rest house rest area pavilion buttonhole alleyway wings waiting room tambour sports special interests solicit social movement salon room retard recreation room reception room promote physical exercises passageway passage parlour parlor movement motion lively interest inner ear hotel foyer hold hinder doorway delay crush-room convince concourse coalition campaign break room body cavity

Conjugation lobby conjugation

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lobby · verb

Examples lobby examples

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Simple sentences

Let's meet in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel at 6:30 p.m.
Tom's mother chased Tom as he ran naked around the lobby.
Tom asked Mary to wait in the lobby.
I'd like you to wait in the lobby.
Tom walked through the revolving door into the hotel lobby.
Tom and Mary are waiting for you in the lobby.
Tom went down to the lobby to meet Mary.
Tom and three other people are waiting in the lobby.
We'll be waiting for you in the lobby.
Meet me in the lobby.
I'll meet you in the lobby at three.
I have a friend waiting for me in the lobby.
Tom asked Mary to meet him in the lobby.
I told Tom to wait for me in the lobby.
Wait in the lobby.
I'll wait for you in the lobby.
Tom has been waiting patiently in the lobby for three hours.

Movie subtitles

Tell her she can eat in the lobby.
Now listen to me. I'm not gonna have that red-headed fellow running around the lobby.
You'll be in the lobby and give us the high sign if everything's on the up and up.
I told you not to come into the lobby.
He was standing in the lobby.
We might as well be living in the lobby.
I'll meet you in the lobby.
It'll help some if you meet Thursby in the lobby.
Why do you let these cheap gunmen hang around the lobby with their heaters bulging in their clothes?
We'll meet you in the main lobby in an hour.
There are British officers in the lobby.
They say, in the lobby, the German Army is past Mersa Matruh.
You sprang it on me, Keyes, after office hours, when you caught me down in the lobby of the building.
One o'clock, lobby of the hotel.
The lobby's half-filled now.
But you folks can go into the lobby till it's over.
Lobby!
Upsa-daisy, Toppy. Say, George. We can't go down the lobby like this.
I'll meet you in the lobby. What's wrong here? You are.
I saw him in the lobby a couple of times, I don't know.
Wagner's furious. The cast is in the lobby.
All right, I'll meet you down in the lobby right away.
Christine, go down and tell them to wait in the lobby.
Yes. They can't live in the lobby.
All right, I'll meet you in the lobby.
I'm going to meet her in the lobby and then take her to the private garage.
Well, then you must remember this, our old lobby.
I met Mr. Billings in the lobby.
Only on the lobby door, sir.
I was standing in the lobby with Mr. Stephens when Whitey. Mr. Barrow came along, and he took me to my seat.
I am not jealous. Well, if you're gonna wait around the lobby and ambush Miss Spencer. - someone is bound to get that impression.

News and current affairs

Greece, on the other hand, is under the influence of a strong import lobby.
The educational system needs to be rebuilt almost from scratch, and with so many women anxious to return to teaching, a revived educational system will also help Afghanistan's democratic politicians gain a powerful lobby of workers.
A US veto of a Security Council resolution - supported by the Council's 14 other members - to oppose Israeli settlements seemed to signal that Obama had crumbled under pressure from America's pro-Israel lobby.
The gun lobby in the US remains powerful, and politicians are afraid to counter it.
But the partnership between a beloved American pastime and the biofuel lobby also marks the latest attempt to sway public opinion in favor of a truly irresponsible policy.
The political influence of financial donors and lobby groups add to the challenge.
True, in the endgame of the talks, the US caved in to its wealthy and powerful agribusiness lobby.
Think tanks, lobby groups, and national regulators have wasted no time in trying to influence Hill's efforts, and to head off any initiatives that might damage their interests.
Europeans who want to develop relations with Russia and the majority of businessmen--European and Russian--with interests in greater trade must also be induced to lobby in favor of greater openness.
What is surprising in the face of this brain drain is the power of the lobby of university professors in Europe to block reform.
Interestingly, in the midst of the political transition, Musharraf embarked on a week-long visit to China to lobby for construction of an oil and gas pipeline between China and the Persian Gulf that would be routed through Pakistan.
It is ten in the evening, and I am waiting at the elevators in the lobby of the Hotel Westin with Mahmoud Jibril, one of the leaders of the Libyan insurrection.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking last month to the membership of AIPAC, the largest pro-Israel lobby in the US, emphasized the urgency of the situation.
Moreover, sports teams surely lobby governments as aggressively as any big business.
One big reason is the gun lobby, which is one of the most heavily funded in America.
But few such restrictions have been legislated - or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.
Politics on the donor side is no less complicated, with growing aid budgets often viewed by taxpayers as excessive at a time when the anti-aid lobby is becoming more vocal.
The issues are detailed and technical, and the financial lobby has deployed a small army of highly paid experts on a mission of delay, dilution, and diversion.
Powerful business interests will lobby for different policies when they believe that fiscal stimulus yields only inflation than when they believe that it generates higher aggregate demand.
Similarly, the export lobby in China has no interest in a strong renminbi, even though it is in China's long-term interest to let its currency appreciate.
The US textile lobby insisted that knit fabrics exported north come from Central America.
The powerful US cotton lobby wants no change in the level of payments, however.
For example, the real-estate lobby in the US obviously has no desire to see government support for housing diminish, despite the fact that the US probably has far more housing stock than it can afford.
Brave politicians who do tell the truth about climate change are found mainly in countries that do not have a powerful fossil-fuel lobby.
The giant fossil-fuel companies have continued to lobby behind the scenes against the shift to low-carbon energy, and have used their vast wealth to buy media coverage designed to sow confusion.
They thus provide a vehicle for ordinary people to lobby for fairer rules and policies, not only in their own countries but also in others.

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