lobby的意思|lobby的解释-里氏词典

lobby ['lɒbi]

n. 大厅, 休息室, 游说议员者

vi. 游说议员, 游说

vt. 游说

[法] 休息室, 下议院民众接待室, 院外活动集团

lobby
lobbied

[ noun ]

a large entrance or reception room or area

<noun.artifact>

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

<noun.group>

a group of people who try actively to influence legislation

<noun.group>

[ verb ]

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

<verb.social>

buttonhole

Lobby \Lob"by\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lobbied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Lobbying}.]
To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the
lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their
votes; in an extended sense, to try to influence
decision-makers in any circumstance. [U.S.] --Bartlett.

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.]

Lobby \Lob"by\, v. t.
To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a
legislative body; as, to lobby a bill; -- also used with the
legislators as object; as, to lobby the state legislatuire
for protection. [U.S.]

In Santiago's Hotel Carrera, Arias walked down the lobby stairs from a meeting with Quayle, as Spain's Gonzalez walked in. They embraced and cameras whirred.
Questioned about its security efforts, Brown Brothers said it plans a variety of steps, including checking people for identification in its lobby.
The influential Keidanren business lobby singled out the U.S. and European Community, and urged world trade regulators to tighten controls on any anti-competitive abuses.
Yet it's crucial jargon because the civil-rights lobby has based its entire strategy on the courts.
Both measures are aimed at those who leave the government and then immediately lobby their former colleagues _ usually on issues with which they were involved.
However, Chris Robling, a Chicago-based consultant hired by Mr. Palermo to lobby ABA members, said that Mr. Palermo's efforts received financial and other support from anti-abortion lobbying groups.
The diplomats refused to describe it as a prisoner exchange, but hinted that Moscow was prepared to help lobby for the release of some rebel prisoners held by Afghan Communists.
With the 15-minute clock running, a band of senators piled off elevators in the subway lobby of the Hart Senate Office building.
An increasingly strong lobby in Malaysia's stockbroking industry, upset over Singapore's proposal to cut some brokerage commissions, is pressing for the withdrawal of all Malaysian stocks from the Singapore Stock Exchange.
Will they next lobby for a federal "lights out" law to save energy?
Angry and hungry, you return to the elevator lobby and punch the button for Bruce.
Worthington Holiday Inn general manager Connie Bruns said 75 to 100 people spent the night in the lobby and meeting rooms.
Last year, Mr. Bloch stirred up criticism in Congress by encouraging leading academics to lobby for funds on the NSF's behalf.
When President Bush scrapped a New England campaign swing to lobby Congress for a deficit-reduction plan, the White House scrambled for a popular Cabinet secretary to take his place.
The bill specifically allows you to do any lobbying for yourself or for your own business." "In fact, if George Bush went back to his (Texas) oil company, he could lobby for it.
But the Turkish lobby was galvanized last summer when the House, for the third time in three years, took up a resolution condemning Turkey for Armenian genocide.
Mr. Sessions has stressed that he intends to keep the FBI above political pressures and to lobby Congress for additional investigative resources, but he hasn't provided many details about his priorities for the 10-year term.
By the time the event crawls to its conclusion on Monday night, three-quarters of the original revelers have chugged the bitter brew of defeat, and the hotel lobby looks pretty bare.
Companies may violate antitrust law when they lobby private organizations that play a prominent role in influencing business legislation, the Supreme Court ruled today.
'I don't think there is any limit if you have the ability, the desire and are honest.' Workers from Devonport dockyard lobby Downing Street yesterday in support of the yard's case to refit Trident nuclear submarines.
The Leadership Conference is the most influential civil rights lobby here, but its opposition isn't likely to signal real trouble for the nomination.
She also said she planned to travel to Washington next week to lobby for Arizona as the site of the Superconducting Super Collider and to testify before Congress on the Central Arizona Project, a giant canal system.
A lobby fountain was turned off.
This may help explain the stand he sometimes takes against the pro-Israel lobby. "Bob is the kind of pol who says, "You beat on me, I'll beat on you,'" says a House Democrat.
American Jews provide important financial support to Israel and also lobby on behalf of the Jewish state in the United States. Since 1975, American Jews have contributed $500 million a year to Israel in private donations.
The State Department should let our legal system work, not lobby it for the Politburo.
One day a week, they become the "moms" of the city's Vietnam Veterans Outreach Center, answering telephones, making coffee and sitting in the lobby to talk to anyone who comes in while the counseling group is in session.
Police found Hildreth, who apparently had slashed his wrists, in the lobby.
Regarding Medicare, the elderly lobby is backed by many business groups that fear if Medicare stops covering workers at 65, they will have to pick up the tab.
The men grinned broadly as they embraced their families and colleagues waiting in the lobby of the building.

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