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INTEREST GROUP

Pronunciation (US):

• INTEREST GROUP (noun)
The noun INTEREST GROUP has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: INTEREST GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

• INTEREST GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

interest group; interest

Context example:

the iron interests stepped up production

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"):

special interest (an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor)

vested interest (groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit)

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