'pressure group' definitions:
Definition of 'pressure group'
From: WordNet
noun
A group of people who try actively to influence legislation [syn: lobby, pressure group, third house]
Synonyms of 'pressure group'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- access,
- bad influence,
- big wheel,
- Black Power,
- black vote,
- breakaway group,
- camp,
- caucus,
- court,
- division,
- eminence grise,
- ethnic group,
- faction,
- farm interests,
- financial interests,
- five-percenter,
- friend at court,
- good influence,
- gray eminence,
- heavyweight,
- hidden hand,
- influence,
- influence peddler,
- influencer,
- ingroup,
- interest,
- interest group,
- Italian vote,
- Jewish vote,
- key,
- kingmaker,
- labor interests,
- lobby,
- lobbyist,
- lords of creation,
- man of influence,
- manipulator,
- minority group,
- offshoot,
- open sesame,
- party,
- Polish Power,
- political party,
- powers that be,
- Rasputin,
- sect,
- side,
- silent majority,
- sinister influence,
- special interests,
- special-interest group,
- splinter,
- splinter group,
- Svengali,
- the Establishment,
- very important person,
- vested interests,
- VIP,
- vocal minority,
- wheeler-dealer,
- White Power,
- wing,
- wire-puller