conflict (noun)

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• conflict — ► NOUN 1) a serious disagreement or argument. 2) a prolonged armed struggle. 3) an incompatibility between opinions, principles, etc.: a conflict of interests. ► VERB ▪ be incompatible or at variance with. DERIVATIVES conflictual adjective …   English terms dictionary

• conflict — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 fight/argument ADJECTIVE ▪ great, major ▪ bitter, brutal, serious, violent ▪ escalating, increasing …   Collocations dictionary

• CONFLICT — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index conflict noun argument, argumentativeness, collision, combat, competition (2), competitor, conflict (2), fight (2), fighter, tilt adject …   English dictionary for students

• conflict — con‧flict [ˈkɒnflɪkt ǁ ˈkɑːn ] noun [countable, uncountable] 1. a state of disagreement between people, groups, countries etc: • The General Strike was the most important industrial conflict of British inter war history. conflict between • They… …   Financial and business terms

• conflict of interest — ˌconflict of ˈinterest noun conflicts of interest PLURALFORM [countable, uncountable] LAW a situation in which you cannot do your job fairly because you have the power to decide something in a way that would be to your advantage, although this… …   Financial and business terms

• conflict of interest — noun a situation in which a public official s decisions are influenced by the official s personal interests • Hypernyms: ↑situation * * * : a conflict between the private interests and the official responsibilities of a person in a position of… …   Useful english dictionary

• conflict of interest — con·flict of interest / kän ˌflikt / 1: a conflict between the private interests and the official or professional responsibilities of a person in a position of trust 2: a conflict between competing duties (as in an attorney s representation of… …   Law dictionary

• conflict — I noun adverseness, affray, altercation, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, argument, argumentation, battle, belligerency, breach, challenge, clash, clash of arms, collision, combat, competition, conflict of opinion, contention, contentiousness,… …   Law dictionary

• conflict of laws — ˌconflict of ˈlaws noun conflicts of laws PLURALFORM [countable, uncountable] LAW a legal situation in which a case is covered by the laws of more than one country, state etc and these laws are different * * * conflict of law(s) UK US noun… …   Financial and business terms

• noun and verb differences — The following table lists differences of stress, pronunciation, and spelling when the same word is used as a noun and a verb, for example compound, escort, practice/practise, record, and use. Differences are marked by the letters s (= difference… …   Modern English usage

• conflict — (v.) early 15c., from L. conflictus, pp. of confligere to strike together, be in conflict, from com together (see COM (Cf. com )) + fligere to strike (see AFFLICT (Cf. afflict)). The noun also dates from early 15c. Psychological sense of… …   Etymology dictionary