economic interest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofeconomicandinterest
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economic
adjective
uk/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk/us/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk/
relating to trade, industry, ...
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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 ofeconomicandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The main impetus for partisan change proves to be economic development, and a changing politics ofeconomicinterest.
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In this way he shows how representations of cultural difference are perpetuated by a dominanteconomicinterest.
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This act declared the gas supply a service of generaleconomicinterest, rather than a public service.
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All of these activities occur on the economic margin and are generally not in one's selfisheconomicinterest.
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The alternative source of putative partisan change was economic development and a resulting politics ofeconomicinterest.
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Theeconomicinterestof the nation was limited by other, political, interests.
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Even so, most ethnocultural historians have conceded at least some role foreconomicinterestin nineteenth-century political behavior.
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Theireconomicinterestis in alliance with the environmental objective of the developed countries.
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Thus, an organizational body that might eventually have aneconomicinterestin the development and promotion of cosmetic neurology is in place.
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This is especially true wheneconomicinterestgroups seek a relaxation of controls, allowing them to export.
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In a context ruled by large firms, the collective empowerment of small firms contributes to balancingeconomicinterestgroups.
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Drainage and reclamation was an ongoing and prolonged process which affected every individual with aneconomicinterestin the area.
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Moreover, organized medicine came to be regarded by many as representing a particulareconomicinterestgroup.
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The lobby could thus masquerade under the favourite slogan ofeconomicinterestgroups - the national interest or the public good - to disguise their private ambition and personal gain.
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We begin from the same supposition, although in our case the relevant source ofeconomicinterestis the exposure to international trade of a worker's industry.
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Policy makers are faced with the challenge of identifying policies and strategies that make it in everyone'seconomicinterestto utilize environmentally sound products and services.
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The relative prominence or obscurity of far-flung population centres is highly dependent upon their changeable economic engagement within dynamic and frequently contested spheres of political andeconomicinterest.
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The shrimp sector is minuscule in the overall economic activity of the country, and any challenge would therefore have been on the basis of principle, and noteconomicinterest.
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Not so much oureconomicinterest, as many speakers have already said, but rather our political interest.
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