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单词 pressure group
释义
pressure group
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpreʃ.ə ˌɡruːp/us
/ˈpreʃ.ɚ ˌɡruːp/
agroupofpeoplewhoworktogether totrytoinfluencewhat otherpeopleor thegovernmentthinkabout aparticularsubject, inordertoachievethe things theywant
（谋求对舆论或政府施加影响的）压力集团
Synonym
lobby
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Activism & pressure groups
  • activism
  • activist
  • agitation
  • agitator
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  • clicktivist
  • counter-demonstrate
  • counter-demonstration
  • counter-demonstrator
  • identity politics
  • insurgency
  • insurrection
  • interest group
  • lobbyist
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  • special interest group
  • super-lobbyist
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(Definition ofpressure groupfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

pressure group| Business English

pressure group
noun[C]
uk
us
agroupofpeoplewhoworktogether totrytoinfluencetheactivitiesofgovernments,companies, etc.:
Theenvironmentalpressuregroupwill todaycallfor moreregulationtoprotecttheinterestsoflocalcommunities.
(Definition ofpressure groupfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpressure group

pressure group
Nonetheless, the broad interests which the national associations represent are a negative factor in providing them with the basis of effectivepressuregrouppower.
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But it also functions as apressuregroupthat advances the interests of farmers.
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Indeed, it often appears as apressuregrouprather than a state institution.
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Victorian geologists did not gather into a tight political lobby orpressuregroup.
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The contributors, a mixture of health promotion practitioners,pressuregroupactivists and academics, share a consistent perspective, clearly set out by the editors.
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Nephrologists, together with patients receiving dialysis, formed apressuregroupto persuade the government and the social insurance agency that dialysis was no longer an experimental therapy.
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Its political tactics emphasizedpressuregroupactivities such as endorsements, lobbying, and campaign help.
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And yet this is not a subject of purely local dimension - a case of a transitory regionalpressuregroup articulating a regressive localism that cut across national political divisions.
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Efforts by families of the chronically ill to organize themselves into a supportive network and apressuregroupare another aspect of bottom-up approaches that are necessary.
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Is it a party, or is it apressuregroup?
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They ought not to castigate other people by calling them in the pejorative sense apressuregroup.
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Apressuregroupought to be independent and able to stand up and be seen to he what it is.
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There seems to be very real danger of it becoming an internationalpressuregroup.
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This is all a splendid example of the nature ofpressuregroupactivity.
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I gave my own views and my own reason, uninfluenced by anypressuregroup.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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