Usually means: Advocacy group influencing public policy.
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  1. pressure group: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pressure group: Merriam-Webster
  3. pressure group: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pressure group: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pressure group: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pressure group: Vocabulary.com
  7. pressure group: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pressure group: Wiktionary
  9. pressure group: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pressure group: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pressure group: Dictionary.com
  12. Pressure group: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. pressure group: Rhymezone
  14. pressure group: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. pressure group: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pressure group: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pressure group: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pressure group: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressure group: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pressure group: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pressure_groups as well.)

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noun:  An advocacy group.

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