Lobbygate
English
proper noun
Definitions
- (UK) A political scandal of 1998 in which lobbyists and were secretly recorded boasting that they could sell access to government ministers and create tax breaks for their clients.
Etymology
Suffix from English lobby (attempt to influence).
Origin
English
lobby
Gloss
attempt to influence
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- lobbier English
- lobby English
- lobbyer English
- lobbyism English
- lobbyist English
- lobbylike English
- lobata Finnish
- Lobby German
- lobby Italian
- lobby French
- лобби Russian
- лоббировать Russian
- lobby Spanish, Castilian
- lobbyvirksomhet Norwegian Bokmål
- lobby Portuguese
- lobby Polish
- lobbye Danish
- *lobie Old French
- lobi Serbo-Croatian
- лоби Serbo-Croatian
- לובי Hebrew (modern)
- лоби Macedonian