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say it: LAH-bee-uhst
lobbyist is a noun meaning "someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer". It carries one recorded sense.
someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lobbyist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.