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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a group of people who try actively to influence legislation [syn: lobby, pressure group, third house]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1928 an interest group organized to influence public and especially government policy but not to elect candidates to office

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pressure groups) A pressure group is an organized group of people who are trying to persuade a government or other authority to do something, for example to change a law. ...the environmental pressure group Greenpeace. N-COUNT

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