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1. A large entrance or reception room or area
   - anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, vestibule
    
2. The people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest
    
3. A group of people who try actively to influence legislation
   - pressure group, third house

1. Detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favours
   - buttonhole

Derived forms: lobbies, lobbied, lobbying

See also: lobbyist

Type of: beg, people, political entity, political unit, room, solicit, tap

Part of: building, edifice

Encyclopedia: Lobby