SPECIAL-INTEREST GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does special-interest group mean? 

• SPECIAL-INTEREST GROUP (noun)
  The noun SPECIAL-INTEREST GROUP has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SPECIAL-INTEREST GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPECIAL-INTEREST GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

advocacy group; lobby; lobby group; pressure group; special-interest group; special interest; special interest group; third house

Hypernyms ("special-interest group" is a kind of...):

interest; interest group ((usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims)

political entity; political unit (a unit with political responsibilities)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "special-interest group"):

National Rifle Association; NRA (a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government)