advocacy group

Questions about advocacy group

What does advocacy group mean?

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

What is another word for advocacy group?

Close synonyms include special interest, special-interest group, special interest group, lobby group, lobby. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is advocacy group a common word?

advocacy group is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.