lobbyist
English
/ˈlɑ.bi.ɪst/, /ˈlɒ.bi.ɪst/
noun
Definitions
- A person who is paid to lobby politicians and encourage them to vote a certain way or otherwise use their office to effect a desired result.
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
- Lobbygate English
- lobbier English
- lobby English
- lobbyer English
- lobbyism English
- lobbylike English
- nonlobbyist English
- superlobbyist English
- lobata Finnish
- Lobby German
- lobby Italian
- lobby French
- лобби Russian
- лоббировать Russian
- lobby Spanish, Castilian
- lobbyvirksomhet Norwegian Bokmål
- lobby Portuguese
- ロビイスト Japanese
- lobby Polish
- lobbye Danish
- *lobie Old French
- lobi Serbo-Croatian
- лоби Serbo-Croatian
- lobbyist Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- לובי Hebrew (modern)
- לוביסטי Hebrew (modern)
- лоби Macedonian