lobbies n. 大堂;(美)游说集团(lobby的复数形式)
- Theatre lobbies were filled with a vociferous crowd during the intermission.
幕间休息时,剧场游说者总是充斥在嘈杂的人群中。 - That should help restore confidence by preventing regulatory arbitrage between jurisdictions and diluting the voices of powerful national lobbies.
如果投资者可以质疑管理者的评估,那么信息披露需要更加充分,全面。 - Bureaucrats worked with powerful party bosses and industrial lobbies to set the agenda, flesh out policy—and neuter any reform that threatened their narrow interests.
官僚与强大的党派头脑及工业议员共同确定日程,落实政策,并且将威胁他们狭隘利益的改革扼杀在襁褓中。
Lobby \Lob"by\, n.; pl. {Lobbies}. [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a
covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube,
arbor. See {Lodge}.]
1. (Arch.) 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. 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; hence: any persons, not
members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its
proceedings by personal agency; a group of lobbyists for a
particular cause; as, the drug industry lobby. [U. S.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]
3. (Naut.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an
old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
4. (Agric.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges.
trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
{Lobby member}, a lobbyist. [Humorous cant, U. S.]