Definition of Lobbyings

1. lobbying [n] - See also: lobbying

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobbyings

lobation
lobations
lobbed
lobber
lobbers
lobbied
lobbies
lobbing
lobby
lobbyer
lobbyers
lobbygow
lobbygows
lobbying
lobbying expense
lobbyings (current term)
lobbyism
lobbyisms
lobbyist
lobbyists
lobbylike
lobcock
lobcocks
lobe
lobe-finned fish
lobe-footed
lobe of prostate
lobe of the lung
lobectomies
lobectomy

Literary usage of Lobbyings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1876)
"That the chief theatres of New York have this last year been crowded to see the abuse of Trial by Jury, and the lobbyings of the Washington Legislature ..."

2. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1883)
"And has their education prevented them from engaging in, or permitting, or condoning, the briberies, lobbyings, and other corrupt methods which vitiate the ..."

3. Struggles and Triumphs, Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum: Or by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1871)
"... railroad laws, and railroad lobbyings, in such a light that he took to his bed some ten days before the end of the session, and actually remained there, ..."

4. Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative by Herbert Spencer (1891)
"And has their education prevented them from engaging in, or permitting, or condoning, the briberies, lobbyings, and other corrupt methods which vitiate the ..."

5. An Autobiography by Anthony Trollope (1883)
"... of their lobbyings and briberies, and the infinite baseness of their public life. There at the top of everything he finds the very men who are the least ..."

6. Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1883)
"... from the mouths of unwilling witnesses, I exhibited his connection with railroad reports, railroad laws, and railroad lobbyings, in such a light that he ..."

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