ALTRUISTIC


Meaning of ALTRUISTIC in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Companies that donate books or equipment to schools that collect their tokens are not being entirely altruistic - after all, you have to buy the products to get the tokens.

You can't expect a large corporation to be altruistic .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But what constabulary safeguards do those altruistic groups maintain?

Given that annuity markets are imperfect, people may leave substantial estates even though they have no altruistic feelings towards their heirs.

He has to give up his egocentricity and develop the beginnings of a more altruistic point of view.

Second, an animal might direct altruistic acts towards genetic relatives of those with which it was raised.

Some, like dreams of providing a great service, are altruistic .

The political concern is not altruistic .

Their motives were partly altruistic and partly economic.

These are not purely altruistic ventures.

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