interest group
noun
: a group of persons having a common identifying interest that often provides a basis for action
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agricultural interest groups are adamantly opposed to the bill
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Official opposition included the business interest groups CalChamber, Computer & Communications Industry Association and TechNet.
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Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Yet financial interventions from powerful interest groups short-circuit the most basic channels of representative government.
—John J. Donohue, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
All this at a time when minority writers are also disproportionately the targets of censorship by Republican state houses and right-wing interest groups.
—Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
Feulner organized the Heritage Foundation like an interest group.
—E.j. Fagan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
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Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Yet financial interventions from powerful interest groups short-circuit the most basic channels of representative government.
—John J. Donohue, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
All this at a time when minority writers are also disproportionately the targets of censorship by Republican state houses and right-wing interest groups.
—Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
Feulner organized the Heritage Foundation like an interest group.
—E.j. Fagan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for interest group
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“Interest group.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interest%20group. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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