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lobby
(redirected from lobbies)

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Legal, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.06 sec.
lobby against something
to solicit support against something, such as a piece of legislation or a government regulation. We sent a lot of lawyers to the state capital to lobby against the bill, but it passed anyway. They lobbied against the tax increase.
See also: against

lobby for something

to solicit support for something among the members of a voting body, such as the Congress. Tom is always lobbying for some reform bill or other. The manufacturers lobbied for tax relief.


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lobby is peerless among the hundreds of lobbies in our nation's capital for one main reason: it alone is armed with the ultimate persuader, an ample supply of indictments for anti-Semitism.
Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Role of Lobbies and Special Interest Groups.
Each time the Lobby Corps lobbies on the Hill, we win," declares current Lobby Corps Chair Carole Conors.
 
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