Definition of "lobbyist" []

• A person remunerated to persuade (to lobby) politicians to vote in a certain way or otherwise use their office to effect a desired result. (noun)

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• "Several blogs have since speculated that Goodstein is a corporate lobbyist in D.C. Well, Election Central just reached out to the office of registered-D. C.-lobbyist Richard Goodstein, got his cell number, and reached him."
• "The Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., has claimed that the term lobbyist originated there."
• ""The word lobbyist has taken on a bit of a pejorative character to it, so for that I may get the odd joke from my social democratic friends, but it's all in good humour," said Mr. MacLachlan, 30, who worked for successive Ottawa Centre NDP MPs Ed Broadbent and Paul Dewar."