单词	self-interested
释义	self-interestˌself-ˈinterest noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES 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 THE 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. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorselfish behaviour or a selfish attitude► selfishness · At the time, I didn't see my decision as selfishness.· I was appalled by the greed and selfishness of some of the men I worked with.pure selfishness · Miller's crime, that of espionage, was a crime motivated by pure selfishness, said the trial judge. ► self-interest a selfish attitude that makes you do things only for selfish reasons, especially in business or politics: · 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. ► I'm all right, Jack British informal someone with an I'm all right, Jack attitude is only concerned that their own life is satisfactory, and does not care about other people - used especially in newspapers: · The Prime Minister criticized people for their "I'm all right, Jack" approach to social policy. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► 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. when you only care about what is best for you, and do not care about what is best for other people:  His offer was motivated solely by self-interest.—self-interested adjective
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