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selfserving

selfserving is the alternative form of self-serving.

Meaning of self-serving

Adjective

self-serving (comparative more self-serving, superlative most self-serving)

  1. Showing interest only in oneself (pursuing self-interest to the exclusion of other goals).
    • "Most of the time when people consider the question of what rules society should have for using software, the people considering it are from software companies, and they consider the question from a self-serving perspective," says Stallman, opening his speech.2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom

Forms of selfserving

comparativemore selfserving
superlativemost selfserving

Questions about selfserving

What is selfserving the alternative form of?
Selfserving is the alternative form of self-serving.

Words near selfserving in the dictionary

  1. selfsabotage
  2. selfsame
  3. selfsameness
  4. selfsames
  5. selfsecure
  6. selfserving
  7. selfship
  8. selfshipped
  9. selfshipper
  10. selfshippers
  11. selfshipping

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