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Pressure group

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  1. 1
    An advocacy group.

    "Various efforts by certain political pressure groups were still being made to stop the West Africa Squadron's activities, for a number of less-than-honourable reasons, but the government was able to resist them and the patrols would continue."

  2. 2
    an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying wordnet

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