0 past simple and past participle of lobby --
1 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: --
[ + obj + to infinitive ] They have been lobbying Congress to change the legislation concerning guns.
[ + to infinitive ] Local residents lobbied to have the factory shut down.
Small businesses have lobbied hard for/against changes in the tax laws.
It lobbied and it agitated.
Newspaper coverage also discusses which interests lobbied for, or were likely to benefit (or suffer) from, possible constitutional provisions.
Second, they lobbied for tighter regulations to protect men from industrial injury.
First they lobbied the government on both the state and federal levels when they felt their interests threatened.
We used this variable to capture the possibility that back-benchers could have successfully lobbied if their party was in power.
In the end, interest groups successfully lobbied parliament which significantly altered the proposed legislation.
Interests, including consumer advocates and environmentalists, lobbied for the bill.
Torrents of constituent mail flowed into their offices, and businesses, nonprofits, and civic organizations lobbied for passage of the crime bill.
