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lobbyist

/ˈlɒ.bi.ɪst/US/ˈlɑ.bi.ɪst/

lobbyist noun: 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.

Noun

lobbyist (plural lobbyists)

  1. 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.
    • Banning President Trump from Twitter didn't just cut his personal communications channel but curbed a cottage industry of lobbyists and consultants who monetized their ability to get clients into his Twitterverse. […] One lobbyist told Axios his firm paid another consulting shop to generate earned...2021 January 13, Lachlan Markay, “Twitter banning Trump undercuts some D.C. lobbyists and consultants”, in Axios

lobbyist meaning in Tamil

lobbyist in Tamil

அரசியல், அதிகாரத் தரகர்

Examples of lobbyist in a sentence

  • The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
  • “McConnell has zero interest in presiding over another goat rodeo,” a second health care lobbyist told me.
  • In and around the government lobbyist areas the streets are paved with gold!

All 20 example sentences with lobbyist

Forms of lobbyist

plurallobbyists

Plural of lobbyist: lobbyists

Origin of lobbyist

From lobby + -ist.

Words formed from lobbyist

Questions about lobbyist

What does lobbyist mean?
Lobbyist means 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.
What is lobbyist in Tamil?
Lobbyist in Tamil is அரசியல், அதிகாரத் தரகர். See Lobbyist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lobbyist?
Lobbyist is a noun.
How do you pronounce lobbyist?
Lobbyist is pronounced /ˈlɑ.bi.ɪst/ (US).
What is the plural of lobbyist?
The plural of lobbyist is lobbyists.

Words near lobbyist in the dictionary

  1. lobbying out
  2. lobbying up
  3. lobbyings
  4. lobbyism
  5. lobbyisms
  6. lobbyist
  7. lobbyists
  8. lobbylike
  9. lobbyman
  10. lobbymen
  11. lobcock

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lobbyist (page history and authors); lobbyist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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