conflict of interest
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- noun
- /ˈkɒnflɪkt əv ˈɪntrəst/
- Formal
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conflicto de intereses
- As a member of the board, he had to declare a conflict of interest when voting on the contract.
- declare conflicts of interest
- disclosure of conflicts of interest
- potential conflict of interest
Hey, I'm just disclosing my my conflicts of interest.
- Hey, I'm just disclosing my my conflicts of interest.
- They're supposed to sign conflicts of interest waivers, and they're supposed to sign.
- Yeah, but Goldman Sachs had said that's a conflict of interest.
- It's just much too much of a conflict of interest.
- And so by doing so, we've eliminated any possible conflicts of interest.
- He was very close with Ethel Kennedy but claimed that there was no conflict of interest in said decision.
- So I think there was a conflict of interest because Becker was on the San Francisco Fed board.
- And even worse, the counselors were bought and paid for by the employer raising conflict of interest issues.
- And so we review each other's papers and you have to decide when you have a conflict of interest or not.
- I think in my opinion, and people might say I'm biased, I think advisory committee people should not have conflicts of interest.
- It came out in the filing that Adam personally owned a number of buildings that had been rented to Wework, which looked like a serious conflict of interest.
- So it is the financial conflict of interest made now.
- But no, it's like it's, it's, it's a conflict of interest.
- And I said, yeah, it was a conflict of interest.
Examples
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It's a conflict of interest for me.
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Unfortunately, that is what is known as a conflict of interest.
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This is a major conflict of interest.
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Have you never heard the term "conflict of interest?"
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So that would be a conflict of interest.
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Get rid of any conflict of interest.
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I have no financial conflicts of interest to report.
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So I have a conflict of interest that I have to announce.
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Because Justin and I both work for your mother, it's a conflict of interest.
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The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Academic text (2017)
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'conflict' (a clash or disagreement) with 'interest' (a personal stake or advantage): it describes a clash between competing interests. This noun + of + noun compositional pattern is common across languages and follows a clear relational logic, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Conflict of interest comes from a simple image: someone being pulled in two directions (a conflict) because two people or groups each have an interest in the same choice. So, when a person in a job has competing 'interests' that could 'influence' their 'decision', we call it a conflict of interest.