lobby against

lobby against something

to solicit support against something, such as a piece of legislation or a government regulation. We sent a lot of lawyers to the state capital to lobby against the bill, but it passed anyway. They lobbied against the tax increase.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Blaine	BLAYN	English
Janina	yah-NEE-nah (Polish, German), YAH-nee-nah (Finnish)	Polish, Finnish, German, Swedish, Lithuanian
Almudena	-	Spanish
Michi (1)	mee-chee	Japanese
Rolando	ro-LAHN-do (Spanish)	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Susheela	-	Indian, Hindi