Lobby vs Pobby - What's the difference?
lobby | pobby |
An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.
A class or group of people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.
(video games) A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.
(nautical) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
(transitive) To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.
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, title= (informal) scouse (from lobscouse)
* My mam cooked us lobby for tea last night.
Like pobs; pulpy, swollen.
*1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘My Own True Ghost Story’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales , Folio Society 2005, p. 103:
*:There are, in India, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveller passes.
As a noun lobby
is an entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.As a verb lobby
is to attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.As an adjective pobby is
like pobs; pulpy, swollen.lobby
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *(term), from , from (etyl) or (etyl).Noun
(lobbies)- I had to wait in the lobby for hours before seeing the doctor.
- The influence of the tobacco lobby has decreased considerably in the US.
Derived terms
* gun lobbyVerb
(en-verb)- For years, pro-life groups have continued to lobby hard for restrictions on abortion.
- The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
Cronies and capitols, passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}