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special interest

noun

  1. a political or economic stake in something:

    Japan had a special interest in the South China Sea.



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Other Words From

  • special-interest adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of special interest1

An Americanism dating back to 1785–90

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Example Sentences

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.

Who 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.

The Republican and Democratic parties, he says, have become simply “conduits of special interest money.”

He has a special interest or property in them, and a lien thereon for advances in money that he may make to the owners.

The thirty-six subjects not reproduced are for the most part small or apparently not of special interest.

The mental diseases that are of special interest in this respect are the so-called idiopathic insanities.

This arose out of an application which has a special interest in the history of printing.

He had carried people, men and women, from one prison to another before this, and took no special interest in this job.

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