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lobby
/ˈlɑ.bi/
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What does lobby mean?
noun
- An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
- That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.
- A class or group of interested people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.
More meanings (8)
noun
- A virtual area where meeting attendees can await admittance from an authorized person.
- A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.
- An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
- A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
- A margin along either side of the playing field in the sport of kabaddi.
- A waiting area in front of a bank of elevators.
- lobscouse
verb
- To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.
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IPA pronunciation
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They entered the lobby already swarming with patrons, and then, after divesting themselves of their wraps, went into a sumptuous dining-room.
In the passage or lobby little Nanny Price lay in her bed in a welter of blood, her throat savagely cut.
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Then he sat down in the lobby and wrote a note to his wife and one to the other doctor in Moonstone.
But indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.
Starting and looking up, she saw, across the lobby she had just reached, Edmund himself, standing at the head of a different staircase.