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third house

noun

, (sometimes initial capital letters)
  1. a legislative lobby.


third house

noun

  1. a political lobby for a special interest
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of third house1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
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Example Sentences

The men who arrived in police trucks at a third house in the city’s wooded outskirts came with sledgehammers.

My mother’s sun was in Pisces in the third house, the home of teaching and writing.

The third house was small, but it had a spacious yard and didn’t need any immediate repairs.

“There are beehives and chickens in every third house, it seems,” said Mathews, 57, a techie by day, bee enthusiast on weekends.

A change in speakers at the state Capitol could reshuffle power in the third house of lobbying firms that are paid to influence the Legislature’s policy decisions.

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