"role conflict" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: role conflicts [plural], rôle conflict [alternative, dated]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} role conflict (countable and uncountable, plural role conflicts)
  1. (sociology) A conflict among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (conflict): rollekonflikt (Danish), Rollenkonflikt [masculine] (German), atuuffiit imminnut assortuuttut (Greenlandic), rollekonflikt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), rollkonflikt (Swedish)

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