lobby group
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflobbyandgroup
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lobby
noun[C]
uk/ˈlɒb.i/us/ˈlɑː.bi/
a group of people who try to persuade the government or an official group to ...
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group
noun
uk/ɡruːp/us/ɡruːp/
a number of people or things that are put together or considered as ...
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(Definition oflobbyandgroupfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflobby group
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Australian non-resident fathers are a well-organisedlobbygroupand there has been increasing pressure for greater recognition of the financial costs of contact to non-resident parents.
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Kane concludes by considering the future of popular education, whether as alobbygroupor a set of good practices to be co-opted by the state.
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It originated with alobbygroupand has been dressed up even though there is no way in which it is an environmental tax.
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It is no policy simply to try to nod in the direction of eachlobbygroup.
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The students' union has become an effective and powerfullobbygroup.
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We meet that organisation regularly and it is appreciative of the additional investment, although—like anylobbygroup—it continues to seek more funding.
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This is not to underplay the importance of that protocol but simply to say that a well-organized, well-financedlobbygroup, can achieve a remarkable amount.
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This is far more important than the interests of any pharmaceutical-industrylobbygroup.
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It does not come from alobbygroup.
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Although it still performs much good work, it has become just another politicallobbygroup.
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All they had received was information from anotherlobbygroupwhich was wholly inaccurate.
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Once alobbygroupis assembled to complain about a particular increase in duty on environmentally unfriendly products, however, they cave in and vote against it.
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They are created for a specific purpose, and that purpose does not include becoming a trade association orlobbygroup; they are there to advise and inform the authority.
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Those people are a powerfullobbygroupbecause they have many customers who would not want politicians to tell them how to behave in their private lives.
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Bingo does not have alobbygroupto support it.
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How influential alobbygroupis does not necessarily depend on financial strength - animal rights activists and other social movements can be at least as successful as industrial interests.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The association was created as alobbygroupto promote independent candidates before the 1940 general election.
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Her work demonstrated the potential power of an organizedlobbygroup.
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When alobbygrouphides its true purpose and support base, it is known as a front group.
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