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lobby
lobby is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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; but this distinction is not carefully preserved. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
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; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.
- 2noun
That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency.
- 3noun
An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
- 4noun
A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
- 5intransitive verb
To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
- 6transitive verb
To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
- 7noun
a large entrance or reception room or area
- 8noun
a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
- 9noun
the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest
- 10verb
detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
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