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==References == | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) [[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. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill. </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 04:52, 13 October 2021
Lobby [1]
(1): ( n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
(2): ( n.) 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.
(3): ( n.) 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.
(4): ( n.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
(5): ( v. i.) To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
(6): ( v. t.) To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
