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lobbyist

/lob-ee-ist/US // ˈlɒb i ɪst //UK // (ˈlɒbɪɪst) //

说客,游说者,说服者,说说员

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who tries to influence legislation on behalf of a special interest; a member of a lobby.

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Examples

  • The Maryland Fraternal Order of Police has mounted a telephone and email campaign to oppose repealing the bill of rights and, with its local lodges, has hired top lobbyists Frank Boston, Gerard Evans and John Stierhoff to assist.

  • Bill Castelli, a lobbyist for Maryland Realtors, said he’s not against information to help property owners understand flood risks, but he is skeptical about where it comes from.

  • He also represented Paula Parkinson, an insurance lobbyist who claimed to have had affairs with members of Congress, amid a Justice Department inquiry in the early 1980s examining whether her alleged paramours had exchanged votes for sexual favors.

  • So across the country, lobbyists for hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and medical practices were working the virtual corridors of power in the first weeks of the pandemic.

  • A lot of lawyers and lobbyists will earn their retirements from this one.

  • Lobbyist Lloyd Hand, a former aide to Lyndon Johnson, flitted from conversation to conversation.

  • Eric told me about a case with which a fellow lobbyist had to cope.

  • But first I went to Washington to talk to a lobbyist friend.

  • The term “lobbyist” supposedly was coined during the well-corrupted (and well-soaked) presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.

  • I moved to Washington in 1988 with the folk etymology of lobbyist firmly in mind.

  • I have been in the Legislature as a labor lobbyist for some years and I have had a little experience in such matters.

  • The fact was that he was a neophyte and, it was true, did not possess the qualities which make a successful lobbyist.

  • The successful lobbyist demands and receives for his services larger pay than the salary of congressmen.

  • George W. Ball was, for several years, a registered lobbyist in Washington, representing foreign commercial interests.

  • If that is your idea, I give you fair warning that I will oppose your claims with all the arts of the lobbyist.