- Clique - Pressure group - Sedition - Splinter group - One of the divisions or parties of charioteers
(distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. - A party, in political society, combined or acting in
union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to
a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or
clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests,
especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good. - Tumult; discord; dissension.
- Entrance hall - Foyer - Front hall - Pressure group - 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. - 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; any
persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its
proceedings by personal agency. - An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an
old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.