conflict of interest

1. 1.

   a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests

   Broadersituation

Questions about conflict of interest

What does conflict of interest mean?

conflict of interest means "a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests".

Is conflict of interest a common word?

conflict of interest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.