[] a group that gives advice to an organization, the government, etc. on a particular issue谘询小组◆a marketing/transport reference group营销／运输谘询小组 () a group that people compare themselves to and that influences their choices and opinions参考群体（供人们仿效并影响其选择和意见的群体）➡consumer group (2) () a group that another group is compared with when you are analysing data to study the effects of sth参照群体，参照组（分析数据时用于比较的群体）◆This low-income group is the baseline reference group in our model.这个低收入群体在我们的模型中是基线参照组。SYNcontrol noun (6)