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What does self-interested mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word self-interested? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having self-interest; particularly concerned for oneself.
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What emerges may be even worse than our brutal, self-interested bungling, but hope springs eternal.
As owners of huge amounts of stock, it is their job to hold incompetent or self-interested management accountable.
In some cases, the antagonism seemed petulant and self-interested, and sometimes it was fuelled by genuine moral outrage.
If a leader acts in an altruistic fashion for self-interested reasons, how does one evaluate such behavior?
They may be tribunes of the people but they are also deeply self-interested.
For too long, the moral and self-interested case against arms exports has been trumped by the apparently invincible economic case.

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