Usually means: Secondary or alternative personality aspect.
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  1. alter ego: Merriam-Webster
  2. alter ego: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alter ego: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alter ego: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alter ego: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alter-Ego, alter-ego, alter ego: Wordnik
  7. alter ego: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alter-ego, alter ego: Wiktionary
  9. alter ego: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. alter ego: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. alter ego: Dictionary.com
  12. alter ego: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  14. alter ego: Rhymezone
  15. alter ego: FreeDictionary.org
  16. alter ego: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. alter ego: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. alter ego: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. Alter ego: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. alter ego: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. alter ego: Merriam-Webster

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. alter ego: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. alter ego: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Alter-ego, alter ego: Legal dictionary
  7. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alter-ego, alter ego: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alter-ego, alter ego: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alter Ego: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alter ego)

noun:  (psychology, psychiatry) An individual's alternate personality or persona; another self.
noun:  A very close and intimate friend.
noun:  (law) A corporation used by a person to conduct personal business in an attempt to shield himself or herself from personal liability, and which a court may penetrate by "piercing the corporate veil" to impose liability on the person when they commit fraud or injustice.

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