special interest group

Questions about special interest group

What does special interest group mean?

special interest 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 special interest group?

Close synonyms include special interest, 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 group a common word?

special 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.