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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interest group
noun
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▪ The system of interest group pressure ensuring state responsiveness to its publics thus appears to be flawed.
Wiktionary
interest group

n. An advocacy group.

WordNet
interest group

n. (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims; "the iron interests stepped up production" [syn: interest]

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Interest group (disambiguation)

The term interest group refers to virtually any voluntary association that seeks to publicly promote and create advantages for its cause. It applies to a vast array of diverse organizations. This includes corporations, charitable organizations, civil rights groups, neighborhood associations, professional and trade associations.

Usage examples of "interest group".

Individuals will develop the ability to form close 'buddy-type' relationships on the basis of common interests or sub-group affiliations, and to easily leave these friendships, moving either to another location and joining a similar interest group or to another interest group within the same location .

A whole news group had been formed: Threat of the Blight was spawned from Threats Group, Homo Sapiens Interest Group, and Close-Coupled Automation.

Here's a chance to help out a special interest group that's really specialsick children who've got to wait in the sun, just to see a doctor.

The members of the Special Interest Group on Lexicography (SIGLEX), for example, strive to push ahead the state of the art of dictionary and glossary making, including even dictionaries for unwritten languages.

Here's a chance to help out a special interest group that's really special&mdash.

He thinks back to the time spent gathering the gossip of the environmental world: awards promoted by the undeserving for the deserving, who is taking over an agency or an interest group and withdrawals of grants.

Able of the OPEC Interest Group and ask him to come here as soon as possible.

Okay, we can automatically discount anything on government stationery, or paid for by any political party or interest group.

Jason Yoshida went down to the garage in the basement of Ham's office, took a car from the pool, drove to the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, where he ostensibly had a meeting with a military contracts interest group rep.

Threat of the Blight, War Trackers Interest Group, Homo Sapiens Interest Group Date: 17.