interest group

1. 1.

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

   “the iron interests stepped up production”

   Synonymsinterest

   Broadersocial group

   Narrowerspecial interestvested interest

   plural

Questions about interest group

What does interest group mean?

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

What is another word for interest group?

Close synonyms include interest. 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 interest group a common word?

interest 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.