third house

noun

(sometimes initial capital letters)

1. a legislative lobby.

third house

noun

1. a political lobby for a special interest

Word History and Origins

Origin of third house¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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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