Usually means: Pursuing personal benefit or advantage.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word self-seeking:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-seeking: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-seeking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-seeking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-seeking, self-seeking: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-seeking: Vocabulary.com
  6. self-seeking: Wordnik
  7. self-seeking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. self-seeking: Wiktionary
  9. self-seeking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. self-seeking: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. self-seeking: Dictionary.com
  12. Self-seeking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. self-seeking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. self-seeking: Rhymezone
  15. self-seeking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. self-seeking: FreeDictionary.org
  17. self-seeking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. self-seeking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-seeking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-seeking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Mindful of, or promoting, only one's own interests.
adjective:  (military, of a missile, not comparable) That searches for a target automatically.
noun:  The selfish promotion of one's own interests.

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