conflict of interest

English

Noun

conflict of interest (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.
   • 2016 January 31, "Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?," Vanity Fair (retrieved 21 January 2016):

     Grassley continues to probe Abedin’s potential conflicts of interest when she was getting four different paychecks at once. “We know she set up dinners for Secretary Clinton and her private-sector employers and e-mailed private-sector employees from government accounts,” he says.

2. The competing interest itself.

Translations

conflicting interests in position of trust

• Arabic: صراع مصالح m
• Armenian: շահերի բախում (hy) (šaheri baxum)
• Bulgarian: конфликт на интереси (konflikt na interesi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 利益衝突／利益冲突 (lìyì chōngtū), 利益冲突 (lìyì chōngtū), 利害衝突／利害冲突 (zh) (lìhài chōngtū), 利害冲突 (zh) (lìhài chōngtū)

• Czech: střet zájmů m
• Finnish: eturistiriita (fi), much more common equivalent: ilmoittaa sidonnaisuudet ("declare interests") in sense of "declare conflicts of interest"
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• French: conflit d’intérêts (fr)
• German: Interessenkonflikt (de) m
• Hebrew: ניגוד אינטרסים
• Hungarian: érdekellentét, összeférhetetlenség (hu)
• Portuguese: conflito de interesses m
• Russian: конфли́кт интересов (ru) (konflíkt interesov)
• Spanish: conflicto de intereses m
• Thai: การขัดกันแห่งผลประโยชน์ (gaan-kàt-gan-hɛ̀ng-pǒn-bprà-yòot)