conflict of interest

English

conflict of interest (plural conflicts of interest)

(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.
The competing interest itself.

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), 利害衝突 (zh), 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"