"lobby correspondent" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "So called from journalists who were given access to the private members' lobby in the House of Commons, later becoming a more generic term for all such journalists in Parliament.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lobby correspondents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lobby correspondent (plural lobby correspondents)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [
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        },
        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 July 19, Charlie Whelan, New Statesman, Don't believe it: \"Blair declares war – on Gordon Brown\", page 26:",
          "text": "Another paper reported that the GMB's decision to cut back the cash it gives to the Labour Party was all down to Gordon Brown. The evidence for this was that a lobby correspondent saw the GMB boss, Kevin Curran, talking to Douglas Henderson MP, a Brown supporter, on the Commons terrace bar. The hack probably didn’t even realise that Doug was a GMB member.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A journalist who reports on political and parliamentary affairs, especially through unattributed sources from politicians or other government officials."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "journalist",
          "journalist"
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        [
          "parliamentary",
          "parliamentary"
        ],
        [
          "unattributed",
          "unattributed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) A journalist who reports on political and parliamentary affairs, especially through unattributed sources from politicians or other government officials."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lobby correspondent"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "So called from journalists who were given access to the private members' lobby in the House of Commons, later becoming a more generic term for all such journalists in Parliament.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lobby correspondents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lobby correspondent (plural lobby correspondents)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 July 19, Charlie Whelan, New Statesman, Don't believe it: \"Blair declares war – on Gordon Brown\", page 26:",
          "text": "Another paper reported that the GMB's decision to cut back the cash it gives to the Labour Party was all down to Gordon Brown. The evidence for this was that a lobby correspondent saw the GMB boss, Kevin Curran, talking to Douglas Henderson MP, a Brown supporter, on the Commons terrace bar. The hack probably didn’t even realise that Doug was a GMB member.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A journalist who reports on political and parliamentary affairs, especially through unattributed sources from politicians or other government officials."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "journalist",
          "journalist"
        ],
        [
          "parliamentary",
          "parliamentary"
        ],
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          "unattributed",
          "unattributed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) A journalist who reports on political and parliamentary affairs, especially through unattributed sources from politicians or other government officials."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lobby correspondent"
}