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special interest

A person, group, or organization attempting to influence legislators in favor of one particular interest or issue.

special-inter·est (sp

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) adj.

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special interest - an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor

interest group, interest - (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims; "the iron interests stepped up production"

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And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them--or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.

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I may be making mountains out of molehills; but I thought at the time (and think still) that she had some special interest in inquiring after your father, and, not wishing me to notice it for reasons of her own, changed the form of the question so as to include your mother.

I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context

I've a special interest in such young bears, and like to show them that I see the warm, honest, well-meaning boys' hearts, in spite of the clumsy arms and legs and the topsy-turvy heads.

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