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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
4. noun. A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
5. intransitive verb. To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes.
6. transitive verb. To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill.
7. noun. a large entrance or reception room or area

   Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, foyer, hall, vestibule

8. noun. a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
9. noun. the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest
10. verb. detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors

    Synonyms: buttonhole

Synonyms

antechamber, anteroom, foyer, hall, vestibule, buttonhole

Common word forms

lobbied, lobbies, lobbyer, lobbying

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