| Lobby 1. (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. 2. (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. 3. (n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck. 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. Thesaurus Entries Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, act on, advocate, approach, bad influence, bear upon, big wheel, blandish, cajole, call on, call upon, coax, constitute, corridor, court, decree, draw, draw on, eminence grise, enact, enact laws, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entry, entryway, exert influence, exhort, filibuster, five-percenter, foyer, friend at court, galilee, get cozy with, get the floor, good influence, gray eminence, hall, hallway, have the floor, heavyweight, hidden hand, high-pressure, importune, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, insist, insist upon, jawbone, key, kill, kingmaker, lead on, legislate, legislative lobby, lobby through, lobbyer, lobbyist, logroll, lords of creation, magnetize, make advances, make overtures, make up to, man of influence, manipulator, nag, narthex, open sesame, ordain, parliamentary agent, pass, persuade, pigeonhole, plead with, pocket, portal, portico, powers that be, press, pressure, pressure group, promote, propylaeum, pull strings, push, put in force, put through, railroad through, reception room, recommend, registered lobbyist, roll logs, sinister influence, soft-soap, special interests, special-interest group, special-interest lobby, stoa, sway, sweet-talk, table, take the floor, the Establishment, threshold, urge, very important person, vestibule, veto, wheedle, wheeler-dealer, wire-pull, wire-puller, work on, yield the floor |