lobbied
- 1Simple past and past participle of lobby.
Campaigners lobbied hard for the new clean-air law last spring.
Industry groups lobbied legislators throughout the budget debate.
Note
Like carried and hurried, the form swaps the final y for -ied. Because lobby works both with and without an object, lobbied can take a person directly (they lobbied the senator) or a preposition naming the cause (they lobbied for reform, lobbied against the tax). As a participle it also forms a natural passive, in which the official is the subject: the committee was heavily lobbied.
The committee was heavily lobbied before the vote.
Residents lobbied against the new highway for years.
lobbied is a form of lobby
lobby, verb: To try to influence a public official or decision-maker in favor of a particular opinion or cause. Full entry
- Spelling
- lobby → lobbied: change y to i, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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