best interest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbestandinterest
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best
adjective
uk/best/us/best/
of the highest quality, or being the most suitable, pleasing, or effective type of thing ...
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interest
noun
uk/ˈɪn.trəst/us/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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(Definition ofbestandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofbest interest
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As discussed earlier, thebestintereststandard exists to protect innocents from harm.
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If donation is not in a child'sbestinterestat that time, then it may not go forward.
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But it is surely possible to balance thebestinterestof employees with the financial health of an organization.
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Presumably, he saw this decision as being in hisbestinterest.
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His own story reveals that in this case the boarding out was clearly not in thebestinterestof the child.
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If these concern only the best interests of the child organ donor, then the intrafamilial principle is indistinguishable from thebest-interestprinciple.
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Professionals cannot take over decision-making for, nor judge thebestinterestof, vulnerable elderly patients.
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Doing good here, serving thebestinterestof the patient, means maintaining or improving quality of life, where there is some quality to be maintained.
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He asks us to identify what is in the child'sbestinterest, and then he asks other social workers to offer some recommendations.
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People in the villages generally expressed a very low degree of trust in local political leaders' ability to work in thebestinterestof villagers.
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A foremost explanation for judges' readiness to request and adopt therapeutic recommendations is the predominance of the 'bestinterestof the child' criterion, discussed earlier.
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For a long time, it has been widely assumed that thebestinterestof the child is the appropriate standard.
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This would be forbidden under any plausible interpretation ofbestinterest.
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Clearly, the presumption is that if a country has monetary independence, it will use these instruments in its ownbestinterest.
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Not only does this prevent us honoring your autonomy (as noted previously) it also may prevent us doing what is in yourbestinterest.
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The dementia patient can have no evidentiary autonomy, because limited capacity renders him less capable than others of deciding what is in hisbestinterest.
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Seventy-seven percent agreed that they can make clinical decisions in thebestinterestof their patients without seeing reductions in their income.
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How do we determine what really is in thebestinterestof someone else?
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