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.
I gave my own views and my own reason, uninfluenced by any pressure group.
This is all a splendid example of the nature of pressure group activity.
There seems to be very real danger of it becoming an international pressure group.
A pressure group ought to be independent and able to stand up and be seen to he what it is.
They ought not to castigate other people by calling them in the pejorative sense a pressure group.
Is it a party, or is it a pressure group?
Efforts by families of the chronically ill to organize themselves into a supportive network and a pressure group are another aspect of bottom-up approaches that are necessary.
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.
