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INTEREST GROUP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims
Example:
the iron interests stepped up production
Synonyms:
interest; interest group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("interest group" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interest group"):
advocacy group; lobby; lobby group; pressure group; special-interest group; special interest; special interest group; third house (an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying)
vested interest (groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit)
