U.S. [f. LOBBY + -ER1.] = LOBBYIST.
1838. Monmouth Inquirer, 26 July, 2/3. The different members of the Legislature were also visited, in order to ascertain how many of them were favorable to the bill, and those who were not, were divided amongst the lobbyers in order to be influenced to vote for it.
1862. J. Spence, Amer., 76. The whole legislation was bribed … even the lobbyers … were admitted to a share of the spoil.
1873. Spectator, 22 Feb., 237/1. There are lobbyers among us, too, but they refrain from putting temptation into that crude form.
