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Перевод: self-interest

[существительное]
своекорыстие; эгоизм ; корысть ; личная выгода

Тезаурус:

1. Such a system stresses economic self-interest as all-important, rather than community spirit, public duty and so on; everybody is out for what they can get.
2. Again, this is another sign of self-interest seeming to dominate the professional public interest covenant.
3. But we have to keep on trying: in the long run more generous social provision, and a return to more enlightened economic policies, are in the self-interest of even Contented of Basildon.
4. What should each prisoner do, if motivated solely by self-interest?
5. The self-interest of monarchs, however, could also operate in a more provocative way.
6. Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers, their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state.
7. Laissez-faire is an economic system based on individualism and self-interest.
8. In both instances a worker, acting in his own self-interest, may choose to retain his benefits (by refusing extra pay or a job), thereby perpetuating his dependency on the Welfare State.
9. T. H. Green had hoped to see a dialogue between opposing interests in a society where self-sacrifice would overcome self-interest, and where citizenship rather than class consciousness would determine priorities.
10. Common good was paramount while individualism and self-interest were of lesser importance.
11. Encouraging enterprise is a good thing in many respects, but enterprise has been defined in people's minds as looking after your self-interest.
12. This London-based institution undertakes the major responsibility of projecting a public image of solicitors based upon client service overriding the baser desires of self-interest.
13. Indeed, as far as -my self-interest is concerned, on what principle could I choose as an end sufficient in itself something which I do not spontaneously want?