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lobby pl: lobbies : a group of persons engaged in lobbying esp. as representatives of a particular interest group vb lob·bied lob·by·ing vi : to conduct activities aimed at influencing public officials and esp. members of a legislative body on legislation vt : to attempt to influence or sway (as a public official) toward a desired action lob·by·er n lob·by·ist n ...
Lobby
A passage or hall of communication especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms an antechamber to one only but this distinction is not carefully preserved...
Lobby
Lobby, means a corridor of hall connected with a larger room of series of rooms and used as a passage-way waiting room, Webster American Constitution, p. 1326....
Lobbying
Lobbying, is a common practice there for memoranda to be circulated to members and for meetings to be called by interested members in the Committee Room, Parliament, Sir Ivor Jennings, 2nd Edn., 1970, p. 230....
agent
agent 1 : someone or something that acts or exerts power : a moving force in achieving some result 2 : a person guided or instigated by another in some action [where the heads of departments are the political…s of the executive, merely to execute the will of the president "Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)"] see also innocent agent 3 a : a person or entity (as an employee or independent contractor) authorized to act on behalf of and under the control of another in dealing with third parties see also agency, fiduciary relationship, subagent compare fiduciary, principal, servant apparent agent : an agent acting under an agency by estoppel bar·gain·ing agent : a labor union that represents the employees in a bargaining unit in negotiating with their employer through collective bargaining business agent : an agent that handles business affairs for another person or organization ;esp : a paid official of a union who carries on union business between the employ...
charity
charity pl: -ties : a gift for humanitarian, philanthropic, or other purposes beneficial to the public (as maintaining a public building) ;also : an institution (as a hospital or school) or organization founded by such a gift compare private foundation NOTE: Statutory definitions of what institutions and organizations qualify as charities vary. Organizations that are primarily involved in political campaigns or lobbying do not qualify as charities for tax purposes, but trusts for them may be considered charitable. In addition to tax-exempt status, charities have also generally been granted immunity from tort suits. ...
VerbarFoyer
A lobby in a theater a greenroom...
Lobbyist
A member of the lobby a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation...
Reprimand
Reprimand, a formal and public stigmatization of an offence addressed by a judge to a convicted offender, or by an official superior to an inferior, generally in substitution for any other punishment: see, e.g., that enjoined for the first offence against the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880 (see BIRDS), in the case of a sparrow or other not scheduled bird, and that enjoined in the case of officers convicted by Court-martial, which may be either 'reprimand,' or 'severe reprimand,' by s. 44 (g) of the Army Act.Reprimand, in British Parliament, when either of the House orders a person (other than a Member) to be reprimanded the Speaker, if the person is in attendance in the lobby, directs the Serjeant-at-Arms to bring him to the bar to reprimand that person. If a person, who is to be reprimanded, is not in attendance, the House orders the Serjeant-at-Arms to take him into custody and bring him to the bar on a certain day to be reprimanded, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. H...
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