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Lobby Lobbying Hotel Large Building Area Entrance Corridors

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In a hotel or other large building, the l____ is the area near the entrance that usually has corridors and staircases leading off it.In a hotel or other large building, the lobby is the area near the entrance that usually has corridors and staircases leading off it.
I met her in the lobby of the museum.
word lobby
full-definition
verb
If you lobby someone such as a member of a government or council, you try to persuade them that a particular law should be changed or that a particular thing should be done.
Carers from all over the U.K. lobbied Parliament last week to demand a better financial deal.
Gun control advocates are lobbying hard for new laws.
The union has attacked the plan and threatened to lobby against it.
It must be terribly frustrating to lobby and get absolutely nowhere.
The aid was frozen in June after intense lobbying by conservative Republicans.
noun
A lobby is a group of people who represent a particular organization or campaign, and try to persuade a government or council to help or support them.
Agricultural interests are some of the most powerful lobbies in Washington.
He set up this lobby of independent producers.
...the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, a housing lobby group.
In a hotel or other large building, the lobby is the area near the entrance that usually has corridors and staircases leading off it.
I met her in the lobby of the museum.
inflections lobbieslobbyinglobbiedlobbying
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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