special interest

Questions about special interest

What does special interest mean?

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

What is another word for special interest?

Close synonyms include special-interest group, special interest group, advocacy 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 special interest a common word?

special interest 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.