selfish interest

collocation in English

meaningsofselfishandinterest

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selfish
adjective
uk
/ˈsel.fɪʃ/us
/ˈsel.fɪʃ/
Someone who is selfish only thinks of their ...
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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 ofselfishandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They have noselfishinterest.
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Despite the obscurity, it is possible to trace the deadlock to two strains ofselfishinterestamong the governing classes: one archaic and aristocratic, the other modern and bourgeois.
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This is noselfishinterest, and we have never sought, and do not wish to seek, to try to impose any solution on anybody.
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After all, money is not the only thing even from the point of view ofselfishinterest.
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It is a personal andselfishinterest.
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Thus, in the mostselfishinterestof her own, she is bound to keep her word and come to our aid if there is aggression.
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It was their ownselfishinterest, the question of land and land values.
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They have noselfishinterestin it.
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It is our clear duty, and, indeed, it is to ourselfishinterest, to do all we can to assist them.
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We cannot allow anyone to pursue his ownselfishinterestguided solely by the profit motive.
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It cannot be a really impartial judgment if they have allowedselfishinterestto intervene.
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Are we in discussing this subject to think only of the shipowners, the narrow and mostselfishinterestof the shipowners?
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He has pursued a purely sectionalselfishinterest.
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It is ourselfishinterestas well as our selfless interest to do this.
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It is that interest which is not the purelyselfishinterestof the individual.
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We have noselfishinterest; we see our role there as a duty.
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None of them has aselfishinterestin these matters.
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I said that it was simple: it was that the advantage of the community must be put before private,selfishinterest.
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Let us get away fromselfishinterest.
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