"conflict of interest" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: conflicts of interest [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~|conflicts of interest}} conflict of interest (countable and uncountable, plural conflicts of interest)
  1. (law) A situation in which an individual or legal entity in a position of trust (such as an attorney, investment advisor, broker, politician, executive, director, scientist or physician) has competing professional or personal interests. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law, Corruption Synonyms: COI Translations (conflicting interest in position of trust): صراع مصالح [masculine] (Arabic), շահերի բախում (šaheri baxum) (Armenian), конфликт на интереси (konflikt na interesi) (Bulgarian), 利益衝突 (Chinese Mandarin), 利益冲突 (lìyì chōngtū) (Chinese Mandarin), 利害衝突 (Chinese Mandarin), 利害冲突 (lìhài chōngtū) (Chinese Mandarin), střet zájmů [masculine] (Czech), eturistiriita (Finnish), conflit d’intérêts (French), Interessenkonflikt [masculine] (German), Interessenwiderstreit [masculine] (German), Befangenheit [feminine] (German), ניגוד אינטרסים (Hebrew), érdekellentét (Hungarian), összeférhetetlenség (Hungarian), hagsmunaárekstur [masculine] (Icelandic), konflik kepentingan (Indonesian), conflitto d'interesse [masculine] (Italian), percanggahan kepentingan (Malay), pertelingkahan kepentingan (Malay), konflik kepentingan (Malay), താത്പര്യവ്യത്യാസം (tātparyavyatyāsaṁ) (Malayalam), conflito de interesses [masculine] (Portuguese), конфли́кт интересов (konflíkt interesov) (Russian), conflicto de intereses [masculine] (Spanish), intressekonflikt (Swedish), การขัดกันแห่งผลประโยชน์ (gaan-kàt-gan-hɛ̀ng-pǒn-bprà-yòot) (Thai), xung đột lợi ích (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-conflict_of_interest-en-noun-uysWv3Lk Disambiguation of Corruption: 91 9 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 91 9 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 90 10 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'conflicting interest in position of trust': 83 17
  2. The competing interest itself. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-conflict_of_interest-en-noun-ZEAhKCAo

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.