WordNet
n. agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" [syn: community]
Usage examples of "community of interests".
For the people, according to his definition, is an assemblage associated by a common acknowledgment of right and by a community of interests.
It often happens that there is the most complete unity of feeling and community of interests as to all external things, yet the one has as little admission into the internal life of the other as if they were common acquaintance.
Their names would never be linked romantically until, as the result of their collaboration in bringing the Salvation home, they found that they shared a community of interests, especially in public service, and decided to marry, a very natural development.
Under such conditions no RAPPROCHEMENT was to be looked for, and an utter indifference, founded at best on ignorance, took the place of family affection--even on community of interests.
Sir Charles was a retiring man, but the chance of his illness brought us together, and a community of interests in science kept us so.
The groups which spring up most naturally, those which arise through a community of interests, are all dispersed, and the broadest, most express, and most positive interdictions are promulgated against their revival under any pretext whatever.