Special interest group

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An advocacy group.

    "We can be sure that all the special interest groups in the country will attack the part of this plan that affects them directly. They will say that sacrifice is fine, as long as other people do it, but that their sacrifice is unreasonable, or unfair, or harmful to the country. If they succeed, then the burden on the ordinary citizen, who is not organized into an interest group, would be crushing."

  2. 2
    an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying wordnet
  3. 3
    A group formed to discuss a particular topic or issue.

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