| 词汇 | lobby |
| 释义 | lobby verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈlɒb.i/ us /ˈlɑː.bi/ C2 to try to persuade a politician, the government, or an official group that a particular thing should or should not happen, or that a law should be changed: 游说，试图说服（政客、政府或官方团体） lobby for/againstSmall businesses have lobbied hard for/against changes in the tax laws.小公司极力游说支持／反对修改税法。 [ + to infinitive ]Local residents lobbied to have the factory shut down.当地居民极力要求关闭该工厂。 [ + obj + to infinitive ]They have been lobbying Congress to change the legislation concerning guns.他们一直在游说国会修改涉枪法律。 They are lobbying for tax cuts. We are lobbying for changes to the law on drinking and driving. Farmers lobbied hard against the export bans. They lobbied to have the head teacher removed. They are lobbying for better healthcare facilities. Urging & persuading ambulance-chasing argumentation badger be/go on at someoneidiom blag blagger get (something) through (to someone) go on hortatory hustle incitation incitement jockey sales pitch sway uncoerced unconvinced unpersuaded unpersuasive unsalable lobby noun[ C ] uk /ˈlɒb.i/ us /ˈlɑː.bi/ lobbynoun[C] (PRESSURE GROUP)a group of people who try to persuade the government or an official group to do something: 游说团体，游说集团 the anti-smoking lobby反吸烟游说团体 Groups of people affinity group alliance an anti-gang assemblage factionally family federation federative First Nation line (someone) up mafia mob online community peer group phalanx posse public scratch syndicate You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Activism & pressure groups lobbynoun[C] (ROOM)B2 the (large) room into which the main entrance door opens in a hotel or other large building大堂，大厅，门厅 sihuo0860371/E+/GettyImages in the UK parliament, a room where someone meets a member of parliament who they have arranged to talk to, or one of the two passages that members of parliament walk through as a way of voting（英国议会的）接见厅，会见厅，表决厅 Parts of buildings: passages & entrance areas arcade archway breezeway concourse corridor desk entryway gateway hall hallway marquee on the doorstep passage porch portico reception side entrance side return terrace vestibule You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Hotels & hostels UK politics: government departments & organizations lobby | American Dictionarylobby noun[ C ] us/ˈlɑ·bi/ lobbynoun[C] (SPACE)a large, open space just inside the main entrance of a public building such as a hotel, office building, or theater: As you enter the lobby, you’ll see the elevators on your right. lobbynoun[C] (PERSUADE)politics & government a group of people who represent a particular industry or interest in dealing with a politician, official, etc.: the environmental lobby lobby verb[ I/T ] us/ˈlɑ·bi/ lobbyverb[I/T] (PERSUADE)politics & government to try to persuade an elected official to take a particular action or change a law: [ T ]Council members have been lobbying colleagues on how to vote. lobbyistnoun[ C ]us/ˈlɑb·i·ɪst/ lobbyists for the banking industry lobby | Business Englishlobby verb[ I or T ] GOVERNMENTuk /ˈlɒbi/us to try to persuade someone in authority, usually an elected member of a government, to support laws or rules that give your organization or industry an advantage: lobby against/for sthHe lobbies against restrictions on investment. lobby hard/heavilyA coalition of business groups lobbied hard to have the legislation changed. lobby congress/lawmakers/ministersHe said private schools would lobby the General Assembly to restore the funding. lobby to do sthAfter the fatal crash, safety experts blamed the fuel-tank design and lobbied to make the cars safer. lobby noun[ C ] GOVERNMENTuk /ˈlɒbi/usplurallobbies a group of people that lobbies someone in authority: The leading employers' lobby called for less government regulation. a powerful/strong/influential lobbyA powerful lobby of property companies and retailers is being formed. the pro-euro/pro-business/anti-gun lobbyHis firm has given £25,000 to the pro-euro lobby. a business/consumer/trade lobbyThe government is under pressure from business lobbies who want taxes on companies reduced. environmental/farmer's/energy lobby Examples of lobbylobby Indeed, much of what is observed in writing is likely to be a result of donor pressure to please home market lobbies. Multiculturalist and antiracist lobbies could regard this as a partial vindication. A fall may lead to lobbying for lower taxes for the public sector and reductions in health care budgets. After they obtained support for the survey, they lobbied to make it an ongoing activity rather than a one time study. One cause, examined in the next section, is the lobbying power of the medical goods industries. The lobbies will be so wide, as to include within them the pillars in the front and on each side. When assessing interest group lobbying success we must consider what they sought and what they got, allowing room for degrees of success. The characteristics of the advocate itself can also play a role in their chances of lobbying success. We will come to understand what factors on average lead to lobbying success, and which tend toward failure. The third section presents the empirical analysis relating institutional, issue and interest group factors to lobbying success. Devising a study with a starting point ten years ago would add to our understanding of lobbying influence. Measuring lobbying success however and analyzing its determinants can provide us with a better understanding of one aspect of the influence process. They can engage in lobbying themselves and/or form part of a trade association that undertakes the lobbying effort for them. Of course, this is only an initial investigation, analyzing lobbying success of only 149 advocates on 47 issues. Both the hard-line authoritarian faction and pro-business affairists lobbied for different reasons to close down the journal. See all examples of lobby These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withlobbylobbyThese are words often used in combination with lobby. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. agricultural lobby We need only look at the farmers' demonstrations on the continent to realise that they are designed to appease the agricultural lobby. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 environmental lobby The environmentallobby is keen to ensure that we have as much information as possible about where it believes that the country should be going. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 main lobby Then the harassed passengers go up on the escalator to the mainlobby, passing a notice, saying that beyond this point only they and their friends are allowed to go. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with lobby |
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