英语词汇“division lobby”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

division /di-vizhˈən/

noun

The act of dividing

The state of being divided

That which divides

A partition

A barrier

A portion or section

One of a set of graded classes or groups

One of the parts of a territorial or business, etc unit, divided for administrative, etc purposes

In India, a part of a province under a commissioner, divided into districts

An army unit (usu half an army corps) containing almost all branches of the service

Separation

The taking of a vote

Difference in opinion, etc

Disunion

The process of finding how many times one quantity is contained in another (mathematics)

A taxonomic grouping, the equivalent of a phylum (botany)

A group of organ pipes played from one keyboard

A florid passage or performance in which many short notes may be regarded as taking the place of a long note (music; archaic)

ORIGIN: L dīvīsiō, -ōnis, dīvīsor, -ōris, from dīvīdere to divide

divisional /-vizhˈ/ adjective

Relating to or marking a division or separation (also divisˈionary)

Relating to or belonging to a part of a larger unit

divisionalizaˈtion or divisionalisaˈtion noun

divisˈionalize or divisˈionalise transitive verb

divisˈionism noun (often with cap; art)

Pointillism

divisˈionist noun

Divisional Court noun

(in England and Wales) a court attached to a division of the High Court which hears appeals from that division

division bell noun

A bell rung in the House of Commons to signal an imminent vote

division lobby see lobby

division of labour

The assigning of different functions to different agents

fallacy of division (logic)

The fallacy of assuming that the part or individual partakes of the characteristic of the whole or group

lobby /lobˈi/

noun

A small hall or waiting room
A passage serving as a common entrance to several apartments
The antechamber of a legislative hall
A corridor into which members of parliament pass as they vote (also division lobby)
A group of people who campaign to persuade legislators to make regulations favouring their particular interests

transitive verb

To seek to influence (public officials), esp in the lobby

intransitive verb

To frequent the lobby in order to influence members or to collect political intelligence
To conduct a campaign in order to influence public officials

ORIGIN: LL lobia, from MHGer loube (Ger Laube) a portico arbour, from Laub a leaf; cf lodge

lobbˈyer noun

lobbˈying noun

lobbˈyist noun

lobby correspondent noun

A reporter on parliamentary affairs

lobbˈy-member noun (US)

Formerly, someone who frequented a lobby in the interest of some cause

lobby system noun

The giving of political information to lobby correspondents on condition that the source is not revealed