lobby
99
3.9
- noun
- /ˈlɑbi/
:
grupo de presión
- The environmental lobby is working hard to promote policies that combat climate change.
- lobby group
- powerful lobby
- Israel lobby
Children don't vote, they don't have lobbies, they don't matter.
- Children don't vote, they don't have lobbies, they don't matter.
- It's I understand that tremendous lobby, tremendous powerful lobby.
- They're supported by the lobby that builds turnpikes for God's sake.
- So I would say it's like most lobbies.
- So it's wrong to call it a Jewish lobby.
- They do not like life, and apparently they like capitalism and the gun lobby far more than they like kids.
- The big tech firms dominate the number of new lobbyists in Washington or just total spend on lobby.
Examples
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Now, they are the tobacco industry's main lobby in Washington, D.C.
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In my opinion, the gun lobby is not pernicious or evil or embattled or heroic; it just is.
Fiction book (2001) -
Meanwhile, a human rights lobby focusing on Africa grew in the US and in Congress.
Academic text (1992) -
First, we have the emergence of a U.S. business lobby in South Asia.
Academic text (1995) -
The environmental lobby has known no greater ally in the White House than President Shepherd.
Fiction book (1995) -
Although the power of the Catholic lobby had declined by the early 1950s, it remained influential in Hollywood.
Academic text (2017) -
After World War II, the hospital lobby succeeded in blocking nurses from securing economic benefits.
Academic text (1997) -
The European bankers began, through the newspapers they own and lobby groups they funded, to call for full banking reform.
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The bail bondsman lobby is a potent political force.
Academic text (2017) -
The New York Catholic Conference sponsors an annual lobby day, when Catholics are encouraged to visit legislators.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
76
3.6
A group or organization that tries to influence government decisions to help its own members
57
3.1
A group of people with the same goal who try to influence public decisions
40
3.9
A group that tries to persuade people in power to change laws or rules for a cause
18
3.7
A group of people who try to influence government decisions about one issue
4
4.1
A group that tries to change government decisions to help a cause or its members
4
3.9
A group that tries to persuade government officials to support laws or policies
3
3.9
A group that tries to influence government decisions often by talking to politicians
A group that tries to influence politicians and government decisions, often by lobbying
Compounds
How Influential
- US
17
4.4
- UK
4
4.1
99
3.9
57
3.1
1
3.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lobby (noun: group of people) comes from the place called a lobby in government buildings where people waited to speak to lawmakers, and those waiting people became known as 'the lobby'. That's why a lobby now means a group that tries to influence politicians or public officials.