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lobby 1. a room or corridor used as an entrance hall, vestibule, etc. 2. Chiefly Brit a hall in a legislative building used for meetings between the legislators and members of the public 3. Chiefly Brit one of two corridors in a legislative building in which members vote 4. a group of persons who attempt to influence legislators on behalf of a particular interest How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Caswall was there, so she entered by the hall door, which as usual was open, and felt her way in the darkness up the staircase to the lobby of the room. Now that the Beef Trust had adopted the trick of raising prices to induce enormous shipments of cattle, and then dropping them again and scooping in all they needed, a stock raiser was very apt to find himself in Chicago without money enough to pay his freight bill; and so he had to go to a cheap hotel, and it was no drawback to him if there was an agitator talking in the lobby. I remember being in the lobby of the Haymarket Stores one day, and all round about me were dogs, waiting for the return of their owners, who were shopping inside. |
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