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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
Majora Carter

Meaning of "self-interest" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-INTEREST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-INTEREST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Interest is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SELF-INTEREST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

self-interest

Self-interest

Self-interest generally refers to a focus on the needs or desires of the self. A number of philosophical, psychological, and economic theories examine the role of self-interest in motivating human action.

Definition of self-interest in the English dictionary

The definition of self-interest in the dictionary is one's personal interest or advantage. Other definition of self-interest is the act or an instance of pursuing one's own interest.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-INTEREST

self-image
self-immolation
self-importance
self-important
self-importantly
self-imposed
self-improvement
self-incompatibility
self-incompatible
self-induced
self-inductance
self-induction
self-inductive
self-indulgence
self-indulgent
self-indulgently
self-inflicted
self-insurance
self-interested
self-interestedness

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-INTEREST

accrued interest
compound interest
controlling interest
declare an interest
disinterest
Everest
forest
high-interest
human interest
insurable interest
interest
life interest
merest
Mount Everest
noninterest
simple interest
Site of Special Scientific Interest
uninterest
unity of interest
utterest
vested interest

Synonyms and antonyms of self-interest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SELF-INTEREST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «self-interest» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of self-interest

Translation of «self-interest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-INTEREST

Find out the translation of self-interest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-interest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-interest» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自私自利
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

egoísmo
570 millions of speakers

English

self-interest
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वार्थ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المصلحة الذاتية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

корысть
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

egoísmo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বার্থ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

intérêt personnel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepentingan diri sendiri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eigennutz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

私利
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사리사욕
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepentingan pribadi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự lợi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய வட்டி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: ची आवड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kişisel çıkar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

interesse personale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

własny interes
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

корисливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de auto- interes
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδιοτέλεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self- belang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

egenintresse
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

egeninteresse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-interest

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-INTEREST»

The term «self-interest» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.655 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-INTEREST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «self-interest» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «self-interest» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-interest

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10 QUOTES WITH «SELF-INTEREST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word self-interest.
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John Perry Barlow
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
2
Evan Bayh
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
3
Gordon Bethune
The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know of any pilots that don't have a self-interest in staying alive.
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David Blunkett
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.
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James L. Buckley
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
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James F. Byrnes
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
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Majora Carter
My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Chanakya
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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Andrew Dominik
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
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Warren Farrell
I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-INTEREST»

Discover the use of self-interest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-interest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Beyond Self-Interest
The essays trace, from the ancient Greeks to the present, the use of self-interest to explain political life.
Jane J. Mansbridge, 1990
2
Self-Interest: An Anthology of Philosophical Perspectives ...
Self-Interest brings into discussion the reconciliation of necessary self-concern with its manifest potential for harm. This anthology brings together the work of twenty-three imp.
Kelly Rogers, 2014
3
The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of ...
"Riveting. This is an outstanding book. "The Hesitant Hand" is interesting, scholarly, balanced, and very well-written. I learned a great deal.
Steven G. Medema, 2011
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Justice and Self-Interest: Two Fundamental Motives
This volume argues that the commitment to justice is a fundamental motive and that, although it is typically portrayed as serving self-interest, it sometimes takes priority over self-interest.
Melvin J. Lerner, Susan Clayton, 2011
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Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science
Self-Interest before Adam Smith inquires into the foundations of economic theory.
Pierre Force, 2003
6
Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest
This revised and expanded edition includes a new introduction by Block addressing what has and hasn’t changed since the first edition and a new chapter on applying stewardship to the common good of the wider community.
Peter Block, 2013
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Transcending self-interest: psychological explorations of ...
Heidi A. Wayment and Jack J. Bauer have assembled a group of contributors who are helping to reshape how the field of psychology defines the self in the 21st century.
Heidi A. Wayment, Jack J. Bauer, 2008
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Idioms of Self Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in ...
Demonstrating that Renaissance interpretive formations concerning economic behaviour were flexible and innovative, this book argues that the notion of self-interest was a coherent locus of interpretation in the early seventeenth century.
Jill Phillips Ingram, 2013
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Moving Beyond Self-Interest: Perspectives from Evolutionary ...
In Moving Beyond Self-Interest, psychologists, neuroscientists, economists, and political scientists discuss and extend cutting-edge developments in the science of caring for and helping others.
Stephanie L. Brown, R. Michael Brown, Louis A. Penner, 2011
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Self-Interest: Volume 14
The twelve essays in this volume - written from a range of perspectives - address these questions and examine related issues.
Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr, Jeffrey Paul, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-INTEREST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-interest is used in the context of the following news items.
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DOL Opponents Are Motivated By Self-Interest
I suspect their real agenda involves protecting their economic self-interest. One opponent is Kim O'Brien, the CEO of Americans for Annuity Protection, a lobby ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Senate puts self-interest first
Imagine there was a rule in our justice system where a convicted criminal could avoid a jail term by simply refusing to show up at prison. This would no doubt ... «Toronto Sun, Jul 15»
3
Self-interest reigns in the business world and it's holding back global …
But it also believes that the self-interest of managers and the aggressive approach of activist investors are playing a key role in holding back the much-needed ... «Business Insider, Jun 15»
4
a great act of enlightened self-interest
Magna Carta was arguably one of history's greatest acts of enlightened self-interest, as a group of rebel barons won a series of concessions from King John that ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
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It's all about self-interest
It's all about self-interest. Like when The Germans got all het up about England bidding for the World Cup in 2006, just because they were under the impression ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Obama and Israel: rationality, self-interest and hatred
Even before the war, anti-Semitism was more powerful than self interest. If territorial expansion and world conquest were Hitler's highest priority, he would not ... «Jewish Journal, Jun 15»
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Why do people persist in voting against their self-interest?
If people voted in their own self-interest, the Republican Party would never come close to getting 1% of the vote. It would fade away into an obscure footnote in ... «Firedoglake, May 15»
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Self-interest and a just society are not in conflict, whatever 'shy …
'I'm not going to vote for policies that make me markedly poorer; but exactly because I have done well for myself, I reckon I can afford a bit more tax to properly ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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California urban water cuts are matter of 'self-interest,' state says
It's about self-interest in making a judgment that we have to act in urban California as if won't rain for another couple years.” A historic decision to mandate a 25 ... «Sacramento Bee, May 15»
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Tidal waves of ridicule: Jay Z's streaming service is self-interest
COMMENT. There's usually a good reason for awkward silences and strained expressions. Sometimes it's shyness, other times it's because the air in a room is ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 15»

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