lobby

• a large entrance or reception room or area
• detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of
• the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest
• a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
• 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
• That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly
• 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
• To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes
• To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body

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