Noun

• S: (n) National Rifle Association, NRA (a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) special interest, special-interest group, special interest group, advocacy group, lobby group, lobby, pressure group, third house (an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) National Rifle Association, NRA (a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) interest, interest group ((usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims) "the iron interests stepped up production"
• S: (n) special interest, special-interest group, special interest group, advocacy group, lobby group, lobby, pressure group, third house (an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying)
• S: (n) vested interest (groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit)
• S: (n) political unit, political entity (a unit with political responsibilities)
• S: (n) special interest, special-interest group, special interest group, advocacy group, lobby group, lobby, pressure group, third house (an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying)
• S: (n) state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic (a politically organized body of people under a single government) "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"
• S: (n) Holy Roman Empire (a political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and lasted until 1806 when it was dissolved by Napoleon)
• S: (n) union (a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations) "the Soviet Union"
• S: (n) Palestine National Authority, Palestinian National Authority, Palestine Authority (combines the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under a political unit with limited autonomy and a police force; created in 1993 by an agreement between Israel and the PLO)
• S: (n) cell, cadre (a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement)
• S: (n) amphictyony (an association of neighboring states or tribes in ancient Greece; established originally to defend a common religious center)
• S: (n) lunatic fringe (a political unit with extreme and fanatical views)
• S: (n) revolutionary group (a political unit organized to promote revolution)
• derivationally related form