lobbyist

English

Etymology

From lobby +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.bi.ɪst/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒ.bi.ɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

lobbyist (plural lobbyists)

1. A person who is paid to lobby politicians and encourage them to vote a certain way or otherwise use their office to effect a desired result.
   • 2021 January 13, Lachlan Markay, “Twitter banning Trump undercuts some D.C. lobbyists and consultants”, in Axios‎^[1]:

     Banning President Trump from Twitter didn't just cut his personal communications channel but curbed a cottage industry of lobbyists and consultants who monetized their ability to get clients into his Twitterverse. […] One lobbyist told Axios his firm paid another consulting shop to generate earned media for clients, including tweets from prominent MAGA personalities such as Charlie Kirk, the founder of the pro-Trump student group Turning Point USA.

Derived terms

• nonlobbyist
• superlobbyist

Translations

person paid to influence politicians

• Catalan: lobbista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 說客 / 说客 (zh) (shuìkè)

• Czech: lobbista (cs) m
• Danish: lobbyist c
• Dutch: lobbyist (nl) m
• Esperanto: lobiisto
• Finnish: lobbari (fi)
• French: lobbyiste (fr) m or f,
• Georgian: ლობისტი (lobisṭi)
• German: Lobbyist (de) m, Lobbyistin (de) f
• Hebrew: לוביסטי m (lobísti)
• Hungarian: lobbista (hu)
• Irish: brústocaire m
• Italian: lobbista m, portavoce (it) m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: лобист m (lobist)
• Maori: kaikōkirikiri
• Polish: lobbista (pl) m, lobbysta (pl) m
• Portuguese: lobista (pt)
• Romanian: lobbyist (ro) m, lobbyistă (ro) f
• Russian: лобби́ст (ru) m (lobbíst), лобби́стка (ru) f (lobbístka)
• Slovene: lobist m, lobistka f
• Spanish: lobista m or f by sense, cabildero m, recabador m
• Swedish: lobbyist (sv) c

Dutch

Etymology

From lobbyen +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lob‧by‧ist

Noun

lobbyist m (plural lobbyisten, diminutive lobbyistje n)

1. lobbyist

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English lobbyist. By surface analysis, lobby +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo.biˈist/

Noun

lobbyist m (plural lobbyiști, feminine equivalent lobbyistă)

1. lobbyist

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	lobbyist	lobbyistul		lobbyiști	lobbyiștii
genitive-dative	lobbyist	lobbyistului		lobbyiști	lobbyiștilor
vocative	lobbyistule			lobbyiștilor

Derived terms

• lobbyistică

Related terms

• lobby
• lobbying
• lobbyism

References

• “lobbyist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Swedish

Noun

lobbyist c

1. a lobbyist

Declension

Declension of lobbyist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lobbyist	lobbyists
	definite	lobbyisten	lobbyistens
plural	indefinite	lobbyister	lobbyisters
	definite	lobbyisterna	lobbyisternas

Related terms

• lobby

References

• lobbyist in Svensk ordbok (SO)