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Special interest

noun

An individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor.

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"Special interest" Quotes from Famous Books

... not think," said Miss Ford, "that because I am a practical worker I have no understanding of Inner Meanings. On the contrary, I have perhaps wasted too much of my time on spiritual matters. That is why I take quite a personal and special interest in your case. I had a great friend, now in the trenches, alas, who possessed Power. He used to come to my Wednesdays—at least I used to invite him to come, but he was dreamy like you and constantly mistook the date. He helped ...

— Living Alone • Stella Benson

... understand what he can have to conceal. If Davis is his brother-in-law, it is natural that he should feel a special interest in ...

— The Telegraph Boy • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... the general course of the trail he was following up was from the northeast, he scanned with special interest the country in that direction. He picked out a point some twenty miles distant as the place where the Nez Perces were most likely to have made one of their camps. While he might have shortened the time by keeping a direct line to it, he stuck to his resolution not to turn ...

— Deerfoot in The Mountains • Edward S. Ellis

... of special interest in regard to the early days of the United States, in some ways complementary to each other in their different points of view, are: "Alexander Hamilton," by F. G. Oliver: Constable & Co., and "Historical Essays," ...

— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood

... itself in the silence, when her quick ear caught the rattle of the lighter carriage. Her first impulse was to step to the door and wait for it there, but she did not yield to it; she would do just as usual, neither more nor less. She would not for worlds have Truman Hanks suspect any special interest on her part. He might try to find out its cause; and a hot blush enveloped Lucyet as she contemplated the possibility of his assigning it to the true one. Only one person in all the village knew that Lucyet ...

— A Christmas Accident and Other Stories • Annie Eliot Trumbull

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