Term: conflict of interest: a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests
Candidate hypernym: situation: a complex or critical or unusual difficulty → 1
Candidate hypernym: microwave bomb: a bomb that explodes in midair and releases a massive burst of electromagnetic energy sufficient to disable computers and telecommunications without killing people or damaging buildings → 0
Candidate hypernym: bonefish: slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons → 0
Candidate hypernym: lost-and-found: repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them → 0
Candidate hypernym: rent-rebate: a rebate on rent given by a local government authority → 0
Candidate hypernym: naked mole rat: fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites → 0
Candidate hypernym: cimetidine: a drug (trade name Tagamet) used to treat peptic ulcers by decreasing the secretion of stomach acid → 0
Candidate hypernym: pseudophloem: false phloem → 0
Candidate hypernym: dirt: the state of being covered with unclean things → 0
Candidate hypernym: corrugation: a ridge on a corrugated surface → 0
Candidate hypernym: producer: someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work) → 0