special interest
a political or economic stake in something: Japan had a special interest in the South China Sea.
Origin of special interest
1Other words from special interest
- special-interest, adjective
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How to use special interest in a sentence
At the same time, campaigns are spending less while the special-interest groups are spending more.
Sometimes politicians oppose reform for nefarious reasons—to protect a special interest or a major donor, for example.
Can the U.S. Government Go Moneyball? | Peter Orszag, Jim Nussle | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWho has the courage to do the right thing—money from special interest groups be damned?
Its members would not be beholden to any special interest groups, at all, for their selection.
Is It Time to Take a Chance on Random Representatives? | Michael Schulson | November 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Republican and Democratic parties, he says, have become simply “conduits of special interest money.”
The Independents Who Could Tip the Senate in November | Linda Killian | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
He has a special interest or property in them, and a lien thereon for advances in money that he may make to the owners.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesThe thirty-six subjects not reproduced are for the most part small or apparently not of special interest.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters | James Edward KeelerThe mental diseases that are of special interest in this respect are the so-called idiopathic insanities.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyThis arose out of an application which has a special interest in the history of printing.
A History of the Cambridge University Press | S. C. RobertsHe had carried people, men and women, from one prison to another before this, and took no special interest in this job.
The Light That Lures | Percy Brebner
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