Usually means: Prioritizing personal gain over others.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word self-serving:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-serving: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-serving, self-serving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-serving: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-serving, self-serving: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-serving: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-Serving, Self-serving, self-serving: Wordnik
  7. self-serving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. self-serving: Wiktionary
  9. self-serving: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. self-serving: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. self-serving: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. self-serving: Dictionary.com
  13. Self-serving: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. self-serving: Rhymezone
  15. self-serving: FreeDictionary.org
  16. self-serving: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. self-serving: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-serving: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. self-serving: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-serving: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Showing interest only in oneself (pursuing self-interest to the exclusion of other goals).

Similar:
self-seeking, selfish, self-interested, egoistical, individualistic, self-minded, self-centered, ego-minded, self-centred, heterocentric, more...

Opposite:
altruistic, selfless

Types:
confirmation bias, hindsight bias, status quo bias, survivorship bias, sunk cost fallacy, more...

Phrases:
Self-serving bias, more...

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Similar:
self-seeking, selfish, self-interested, egoistical, individualistic, self-minded, self-centered, ego-minded, self-centred, heterocentric, more...

Opposite:
altruistic, selfless

Types:
confirmation bias, hindsight bias, status quo bias, survivorship bias, sunk cost fallacy, more...

Phrases:
Self-serving bias, more...



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