Other forms: lobbyists
A lobbyist is somebody paid to press decision-makers. A paid lobbyist, industry lobbyists, meet the lobbyist.
Registration of them is required in some countries and not others, and the argument for it is simple: knowing who is paying for which argument is what lets the public judge it. The name comes from the lobby where people waited to catch legislators. Note lobby, both the room and the verb.
1nounlobbyistSomebody paid to press decision-makers.
“A lobbyist for the oil industry met several senators to argue against the new tax.”
lobbyist is a persuader.
Proto-Indo-European
*lewbʰ- (cut off)
Frankish
*laubijā — arbour, shelter
Medieval Latin
lobia
English
lobby
English, today
lobbyist
Built from
From lobby + -ist. lobby comes from Medieval Latin lobia, lobium, laubia (“a portico, covered way, gallery”), borrowed from Frankish laubijā (“arbour, shelter”), related to Old English lēaf (“foliage”). More at leaf. a doublet of leaf and lodge and loggia. Political sense derives from the entrance hall of legislatures, where people traditionally tried to influence legislators because it was the most convenient place to meet them.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA