lobbies

Meanings

Noun

• a large entrance or reception room or area
• the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest
• a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
• plural of lobby
• A stew resembling scouse, using corned beef or tinned stewing steak.

Verb

• detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
• third-person singular simple present indicative of lobby

Synonyms

antechamber, anteroom, buttonhole, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, pressure group, third house, vestibule