The word 'lobbies' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a group of people who try to influence and persuade government officials on specific issues or policies. Example: The oil company hired a team of lobbyists to advocate for their interests in the upcoming legislation on environmental regulations.
It frantically lobbies against any Australian government criticising settlements.
I have seen whips pushing people through the aye and no lobbies.
These were not empty words: in 2013, he led his party through the lobbies against a new bombing campaign in Syria, a move which eventually halted the interventionist plans, not only of London, but of Washington and Paris too.
In total, 24 out of the Tories' 43 MPs in the north of England did not follow their leader into the lobbies in support of same-sex marriage.
Tasteful and traditional was the mood, the hush of lobbies in discreet uptown hotels.
He lobbies about it on behalf of Oxfam at G8 summits.
Unfortunately, our blinkered major political parties, business lobbies and media refuse to see the global carbon budget emergency because they are preoccupied with the self-interest of parochial budget figures.
But an end to the subsidies would bring world leaders into conflict with powerful fossil fuel lobbies as well as developing nations where the subsidies make fuel affordable.
People must get democratic control over financial institutions, transnational corporations and their lobbies.
There was just a litany of the lobbies to which Cameron has come to be increasingly in thrall: the publicists for the crazy HS2 and other vanity projects such as the Manchester science centre, the Swansea barrage and the continuing Olympics "legacy".
The oil and coal lobbies are ferociously opposed to the EPA rules, as is the Republican leadership in Congress.
