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noun
1.(in the UK) any of several large halls in the Houses of Parliament in which MPs may meet members of the public.
‘She received her first term of imprisonment in February 1908 for entering the lobby of the House of Commons.’
‘‘I have committed no violations,’ he said in the lobby of Parliament last Friday.’
2.(in the UK) each of two corridors in the Houses of Parliament to which MPs retire to vote.
‘I am sure that not many of those on the Labour side of the select committee will go through the Ayes lobby and vote for the bill to continue.’
‘In spite of his advancing years, he has regularly paraded nobly through the division lobbies in the cause of the suppression of vice.’
3.(in the UK) lobby correspondents collectively.
4.A group of people seeking to influence legislators on a particular issue.
‘members of the anti-abortion lobby’
‘For decades, trucking company lobbies defended complex federal regulations that set hauling prices and routes and limited competition.’
5.A room providing a space out of which one or more other rooms or corridors lead, typically one near the entrance of a public building.
‘they went into the hotel lobby’
‘With the radical image makeover, the humble earthenware has emerged out of the kitchen to occupy pride of place as decorative articles in drawing rooms, hotel lobbies, airport lounges and showrooms.’
6.An organized attempt by members of the public to influence legislators.
‘a recent lobby of Parliament by pensioners’
‘There was to be a lobby of this meeting at 12.30 pm.’
verb
1.Seek to influence (a legislator) on an issue.
‘they insist on their right to lobby Congress’
‘the organization was formed to lobby for student concerns’
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