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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

... events of any special interest occur between the commencement of the seventh century and the Danish invasion. The obituaries of ecclesiastics and details of foreign missions, which we have already recorded, are its salient points. The wars of the ...

— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack

... which it was at one time permissible to charge, possesses a special interest. This was a bonus of 1s. a head on all men pressed—a bonus that was in reality nothing more than the historic prest shilling of other days, now no longer paid to pressed men, diverted into the pockets of those who did the pressing. ...

— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson

... vacancy occasioned by the death of Bro. Cary as soon as possible by an able white missionary, and that they endeavor to the utmost of their power to promote the success of this mission, as one in which the convention feel a special interest. ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various

... the newly discovered church, north of the Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, appears in the Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund. The author is Dr. Selah Merrill. The ruin has proved to be one of great extent, and of special interest. The way in which it was brought to light is worth recording. In an uneven field, which rose considerably above the land about it, parts of which appearing, indeed, like little hillocks, the owner of the soil tried to maintain ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 • Various

... edition, dated 1864 (which seems to indicate the poems had found some readers), but still in the familiar brown of Ticknor and Fields, matching my first American editions of The Angel in the House. This copy was of special interest because it was a presentation copy from the author to Harriet Beecher Stowe. The leaves had been opened, but if Mrs. Stowe read, she had made no marginal comments. The only addition to the book was an old newspaper clipping pasted in the back—a condensed history ...

— Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton

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