INTEREST GROUP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Example:

the iron interests stepped up production

Synonyms:

interest; interest group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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"):

advocacy group; lobby; lobby group; pressure group; special-interest group; special interest; special interest group; third house (an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying)

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