Simplified Chinese Meaning of lobby

大厅

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Definitions and Meaning of lobby in English

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lobby (n)

a large entrance or reception room or area

the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest

an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying

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lobby (v)

detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors

Webster

lobby (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.

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.

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lobby (v. i.)

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

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lobby (v. t.)

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

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大厅

a large entrance or reception room or area, the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest, an interest group that trie

门厅,大厅,大厅,走廊,走廊,候客室,腔,入口,输入,入口通道

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lobbish => 游说, lobbing => 抛物线传球, lobbies => 大厅, lobbied => 游说, lobbed => 抛球,