SELF-INTEREST


Meaning of SELF-INTEREST in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

economic

Will his ideology make him close the border, or will economic self-interest keep it open, at least for a time?

Rose Tsai and Julie Lee and their like-minded neighbors on the west side are pushing issues that smack of conservative economic self-interest .

Presumably the interplay of political and economic self-interest of government in industry will bring us to their goal.

enlightened

Perhaps sensibly, Mr Bush's campaign appeals more to enlightened self-interest than to self-sacrifice.

One, deriving from Hobbes and Locke, regards the consent given as an expression of rational enlightened self-interest .

■ VERB

enlighten

Or should we politicize the principle of altruism on the grounds that it is no more than enlightened self-interest ?

Certain information is desired for enlightened national self-interest .

An alternative view, however, suggests that enlightened self-interest is more likely than regulatory compulsion to bring about truly sustainable activities.

Family support may be the twenty-first-century form of enlightened self-interest .

For most people, paying tax was a kind of enlightened self-interest .

We will only succeed if we start to develop a doctrine of international community based on the principle of enlightened self-interest .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

naked truth/self-interest/aggression etc

And that's the naked truth Yes that's the naked truth.

Lonrho itself is authority for the view that pursuit of naked self-interest by criminal means can never amount to conspiracy.

Revealed ... the naked truth about Paul McCartney.

The aristocracy of this period has been castigated for its naked self-interest and expediency.

With their banshee wails, squalling guitars and naked aggression, they are baring their souls and they are angry.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Advertising is most effective when it appeals directly to people's self-interest .

Our country's role in the world must be determined by economic self-interest .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But such self-interest might prove misguided.

But there were other considerations, too, of which self-interest was only one.

Certain information is desired for enlightened national self-interest .

In practice, however, motives for intervention are rarely entirely pure, and an element of self-interest usually obtrudes.

Or should we politicize the principle of altruism on the grounds that it is no more than enlightened self-interest ?

The conservative is led by disposition, not unmixed with pecuniary self-interest , to adhere to the familiar and the established.

They also wondered if Morris's strategic thinking was unhinged from financial self-interest .

Too many leaders, motivated by self-interest , had failed to rise to the occasion.

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