0 a group of people who work together to try to influence what other people or the government think about a particular subject, in order to achieve the things they want
1 a group of people who work together to try to influence the activities of governments, companies, etc.:
The environmental pressure group will today call for more regulation to protect the interests of local communities.
Nonetheless, the broad interests which the national associations represent are a negative factor in providing them with the basis of effective pressure group power.
But it also functions as a pressure group that advances the interests of farmers.
Indeed, it often appears as a pressure group rather than a state institution.
Victorian geologists did not gather into a tight political lobby or pressure group.
The contributors, a mixture of health promotion practitioners, pressure group activists and academics, share a consistent perspective, clearly set out by the editors.
Nephrologists, together with patients receiving dialysis, formed a pressure group to persuade the government and the social insurance agency that dialysis was no longer an experimental therapy.
Its political tactics emphasized pressure group activities such as endorsements, lobbying, and campaign help.
And yet this is not a subject of purely local dimension - a case of a transitory regional pressure group articulating a regressive localism that cut across national political divisions.
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(謀求對輿論或政府施加影響的)壓力團體…
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(谋求对舆论或政府施加影响的)压力集团…
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grupo de pressão…
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grupa nacisku…
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lobi, baskı grubu…
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группа давления (общественная организация)…
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