Lobby vs. Reception — What's the Difference?

A hall, foyer, or waiting room at or near the entrance to a building, such as a hotel or theater.

The action or process of receiving something sent, given, or inflicted

A public room next to the assembly chamber of a legislative body.

A formal social occasion held to welcome someone or to celebrate an event

A group of persons engaged in trying to influence legislators or other public officials in favor of a specific cause

The process of receiving broadcast signals

To try to influence the thinking of legislators or other public officials for or against a specific cause

The area in a hotel or organization where guests and visitors are greeted and dealt with

To try to influence public officials on behalf of or against (proposed legislation, for example)

The first class in an infant or primary school

To try to influence (an official) to take a desired action.

An act of catching a pass

An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.

The act or process of receiving or of being received.

That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.

(Football) The act or an instance of catching a forward pass.

(politics) A class or group of interested people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.

A welcome, greeting, or acceptance

(video games) A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.

A social function, especially one intended to provide a welcome or greeting

(nautical) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.

Mental approval or acceptance

A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.

Conversion of transmitted electromagnetic signals into perceptible forms, such as sound or light, by means of antennas and electronic equipment.

A margin along either side of the playing field in the sport of kabaddi.

The condition or quality of the signals so received.

(when preceded by "elevator") A waiting area in front of a bank of elevators.

The act of receiving.

(West Midlands) lobscouse

The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals.

To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause.

A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone.

A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved.

A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc.

That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators;

The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received.

An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.

The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education.

A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.

(law) The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture.

To address or solicit members of a legislative body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their votes; in an extended sense, to try to influence decision-makers in any circumstance.

(American football) The act of catching a pass.

To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill; - also used with the legislators as object; as, to lobby the state legislatuire for protection.

(linguistics) Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation.

A large entrance or reception room or area

The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

A group of people who try actively to influence legislation

The state of being received.

Detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors

The act or manner of receiving, especially of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.

Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.

A retaking; a recovery.

The manner in which something is greeted;

A formal party of people; as after a wedding

Quality or fidelity of a received broadcast

The act of receiving

(American football) the act of catching a pass in football;