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Noun: pressure group
  1. An interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favour, typically through lobbying
    - special interest, special-interest group, special interest group, advocacy group, lobby group, lobby, third house

Derived forms: pressure groups

Type of: interest, interest group, political entity, political unit

Encyclopedia: Pressure group

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