noun
Meaning 1
An organisation which represents an entire sector of industry or the community to the government, often incorporating other organisations in that area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Examples
- 1997, James Elliott, Tourism: Politics and Public Sector Management, Routledge, UK, page 187, A peak organisation seeks to represent all the companies within that industry. There are several peak organisations in the tourism industry.
- 2005, Alfred C. Aman, Jr, Globalisation, Democracy, and the Need for a New Administrative Law, Michael Likosky (editor), Privatising Development: Transnational Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights, Brill Academic Publishers, UK, page 289, Peak organisations are not at all typical in the U.S., but the economic discourse that increasingly dominates much of regulation, and certainly, the raison d′etre for privatisation, narrows the discourse in such a way as to make most groups sound essentially the same. There may be no peak organisation, per se, but the discourse is so similar that this may be a distinction without a difference.
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