"special interest" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "special interests",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "special interest (plural special interests)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A particular political issue that is the focus of political advocacy."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "political",
          "political"
        ],
        [
          "issue",
          "issue"
        ],
        [
          "advocacy",
          "advocacy"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10 0 0",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "political issue",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "særinteresse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10 0 0",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "political issue",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "særinteresse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10 0 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "political issue",
          "word": "särintresse"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, Citizen Kane",
          "text": "And they're going to get the news--the true news--quickly and simply and entertainingly. And no special interests will be allowed to interfere with the truth of that news.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Renee E. Fox, “Support science, not potato special interests”, in Baltimore Sun",
          "text": "Next week, the Senate Appropriations Committee will decide whether to allow special interests rather than science — to determine which foods can be provided through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shadowy group with political power."
      ],
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    },
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'm dating a boy called Nick whose special interest is video games; he won't stop talking about Pokémon."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A topic of particular interest and passion, particularly for an autistic person."
      ],
      "id": "en-special_interest-en-noun--3IhRH5C",
      "links": [
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          "autistic"
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "among autistic people",
          "word": "spin"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "16 0 80 3",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "topic of particular interest and passion",
          "word": "特殊興趣"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 0 80 3",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tèshū xìngqù",
          "sense": "topic of particular interest and passion",
          "word": "特殊兴趣"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 0 80 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "topic of particular interest and passion",
          "word": "intérêt spécifique"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 35 65",
          "word": "special interest group"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see special, interest."
      ],
      "id": "en-special_interest-en-noun-NL~vS~O0",
      "links": [
        [
          "special",
          "special#English"
        ],
        [
          "interest",
          "interest#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "special interest"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "special interest group"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "special interests",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "special interest (plural special interests)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A particular political issue that is the focus of political advocacy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "political",
          "political"
        ],
        [
          "issue",
          "issue"
        ],
        [
          "advocacy",
          "advocacy"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941, Citizen Kane",
          "text": "And they're going to get the news--the true news--quickly and simply and entertainingly. And no special interests will be allowed to interfere with the truth of that news.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Renee E. Fox, “Support science, not potato special interests”, in Baltimore Sun",
          "text": "Next week, the Senate Appropriations Committee will decide whether to allow special interests rather than science — to determine which foods can be provided through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shadowy group with political power."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'm dating a boy called Nick whose special interest is video games; he won't stop talking about Pokémon."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A topic of particular interest and passion, particularly for an autistic person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "autistic",
          "autistic"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "among autistic people",
          "word": "spin"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see special, interest."
      ],
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        [
          "special",
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        ],
        [
          "interest",
          "interest#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "political issue",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "særinteresse"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "political issue",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "særinteresse"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "political issue",
      "word": "särintresse"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "topic of particular interest and passion",
      "word": "特殊興趣"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tèshū xìngqù",
      "sense": "topic of particular interest and passion",
      "word": "特殊兴趣"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "topic of particular interest and passion",
      "word": "intérêt spécifique"
    }
  ],
  "word": "special interest"
}