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
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) lobbyist [Related to: lobby] (someone who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer)
• W: (v) lobby [Related to: lobby] (detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors)