Betekenis van lobby In het Nederlands

• 0 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:

  • Small businesses have lobbied hard for/against changes in the tax laws.

  • [ + to infinitive ] Local residents lobbied to have the factory shut down.

  • [ + obj + to infinitive ] They have been lobbying Congress to change the legislation concerning guns.

• 1 a group of people who try to persuade the government or an official group to do something:

  • the anti-smoking lobby

• 2 the (large) room into which the main entrance door opens in a hotel or other large building

• 3 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.

• 4 a group of people who represent a particular industry or interest in dealing with a politician, official, etc.:

  • the environmental lobby

• 5 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.

• 6 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 sth He lobbies against restrictions on investment.

  • lobby hard/heavily A coalition of business groups lobbied hard to have the legislation changed.

  • lobby congress/lawmakers/ministers He said private schools would lobby the General Assembly to restore the funding.

  • lobby to do sth After the fatal crash, safety experts blamed the fuel-tank design and lobbied to make the cars safer.

• 7 a group of people that lobbies someone in authority:

  • The leading employers' lobby called for less government regulation.

  • a powerful/strong/influential lobby A powerful lobby of property companies and retailers is being formed.

  • the pro-euro/pro-business/anti-gun lobby His firm has given £25,000 to the pro-euro lobby.

  • a business/consumer/trade lobby The government is under pressure from business lobbies who want taxes on companies reduced.

  • environmental/farmer's/energy lobby