lobbyist
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5.4
- noun
- /ˈlɑːbiɪst/
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lobista
- Many corporations hire a lobbyist to influence legislation that affects their industries.
- legislators and lobbyists
- Washington lobbyist
- a business lobbyist
Now we've got huge budgets, we've got lobbyists, we've got reporters.
- Now we've got huge budgets, we've got lobbyists, we've got reporters.
- I'm up against big dollars, big lobbyists, big special interests.
- How is it that lawmakers, lobbyists and corporations are working so hard at it?
- Several of her top aides are now full time lobbyists for TikTok, several of them OK.
- By the way, Bill Weld was a fucking lobbyist for Raytheon.
- You know, in which lobbyists and the revolving door rule the day.
- Pollock one of the nine top non profit lobbyists.
- That the head of the Environmental Protection Agency is a coal lobbyist.
- The big tech firms dominate the number of new lobbyists in Washington or just total spend on lobby.
- And, and they're the vast majority of their campaign war chests now come from lobbyists, corporate lobbyists.
- And why, why did suddenly these regulators get captured by lobbyists and so on?
- So they could loophole the laws or, you know, but it can we outlaw lobbyists or we can't do that.
- Flynn was a paid lobbyist for the nation of Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, Turkey.
Examples
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"Waving goodbye, the young congressman grabbed the door and closed it in the lobbyist's face."
Fiction book (1999) -
Fifth: All federal education programs are designed by lobbyists employed by education interest groups.
Academic text (1995) -
"With the vote so close, the lobbyist was not willing to give up easily.
Fiction book (1999) -
I personally have met lobbyists in different states.
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I'm up against big dollars, big lobbyists, big special interests.
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In all, 21 people were charged, including lobbyists and political activists.
Academic text (2011) -
How is it that lawmakers, lobbyists and corporations are working so hard at it?
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ln more recent years however, she has become an active lobbyist at Whitehall on issues of asylum and refugee protection.
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I'm just a reporter, and you're just a lobbyist.
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But as practice demonstrates, lawmakers listen to lobbyists rather than to their constituencies.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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4.1
A person who supports a cause or policy in public
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7.0
A person who controls votes and support to influence political and business decisions
A person who represents businesses or organizations to Parliament about laws
A person who acts for someone in talks or negotiations
How Influential
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Morphology
Etymology
Lobbyist comes from the word lobby, which meant the 'entrance hall' or waiting area outside a meeting room, plus the ending -ist meaning a person. So a lobbyist is someone who waits in that hall to talk to officials and try to persuade them, which is why today it means a person paid to influence lawmakers.