1. A small entrance, reception room, or waiting area
   "Guests waited in the lobby before being called into the main office";
   - anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, vestibule
    
2. An interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favour, typically through lobbying
   "The tobacco industry's lobby groups fought against new regulations";
   - special interest, special-interest group, special interest group, advocacy group, lobby group, pressure group, third house
    
3. The people who support some common cause, business, principle or sectional interest
   "The environmental lobby pressured lawmakers to pass stricter pollution regulations"

1. Attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favour of a specific opinion or cause
   "Environmental groups lobbied lawmakers to pass stricter pollution regulations";
   - buttonhole [informal]

Derived forms: lobbied, lobbies, lobbying

Type of: beg, interest, interest group, people, political entity, political unit, room, solicit

Part of: building, edifice

Encyclopedia: Lobby