lobbying

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of lobby

   “The referee seemed well placed to award the goal, but video evidence suggested the protests were well founded and the incident only strengthens the case of those lobbying for technology to assist officials.”

noun

1. The act of one who lobbies.

   “They showed a new and encouraging Parliamentary appreciation that it is time our national transport problems were examined expertly and without doctrinaire prejudice of any sort—or too much attention to the lobbying of some powerful special interests.”

   “Although Sylvia had been present with her mother at the various lobbyings of parliament in 1905 she had not attempted, in the midst of her studies, to build up any support for WSPU policy in London.”

   “Somehow, that cycle was broken by the clever and well-informed lobbying from the Welsh government, with the result that the Core Valleys Lines have received over £1 billion of investment which would not have passed the test of conventional business case methodology.”