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Definition
someone who is paid to attempt to influence legislation through persuasion of legislators
- She'd lobbied for a dog when she was a girl, when they'd lived on Westfield Avenue in a single-family house with a backyard, close to her father's shop, Ammerman's Fine Food Emporium.p. 14.2
- By senior year Leah was lobbying for her to stay in D.C. "There's not one good reason for you to go back to that ridiculous town."p. 467.4
There are no more uses of "lobbyist" in In the Unlikely Event.
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