Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of developing or augmenting one's intellectual powers or spiritual resources.
- noun The act or process of enriching oneself financially.
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Examples
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More specifically, the claim is this: self-enrichment constitutes an inappropriate motive for conducting war in defense of basic human rights.
David Isenberg: PSC and R2P in Libya David Isenberg 2011
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Elites, confident that they will retain such backing as long as there is an al-Qaeda cell anywhere on the planet, tend to overreach, plunging into cultures of corruption and self-enrichment so vast that they undermine economies, while producing poverty, unemployment, despair, and ultimately widespread public anger.
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A better approach would be to remove the very impetus for self-enrichment, unless it equally benefits the country as a whole.
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Blagojevich now facing prison time for his self-enrichment schemes, it is time to renew our efforts at reform.
Sheila Simon: Time for a More Open and Honest Government Sheila Simon 2011
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Eight months on, as the season of self-enrichment gets going in earnest, he now strikes a more timid tone – yesterday emphasising the structure rather than the scale of the loot, and pleading with those bailed-out financiers who are in the direct employ of the taxpayer "to be sensitive".
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Maximising the potential for the accumulation of trillions of fiat dollars by means of such financial sorcery, both for personal self-enrichment purposes and in order to accumulate a colossal fund of fiat ‘money’ from Fraudulent Finance operations, ready for Stage 3.
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It is a crisis created by politicians who care more about self-enrichment than public service.
Max Skolnik: Grandma's Hands: Real Ethics Reform in DC Max Skolnik 2011
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To understand the obstacles the nascent Republic of South Sudan will face in the coming months and years, we must understand the intense economic distress currently being experienced in north Sudan after more than two decades of mismanagement, cronyism, profligate military expenditure and exorbitant self-enrichment by the National Islamic Front/National Congress party regime.
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It is a crisis created by politicians who care more about self-enrichment than public service.
Max Skolnik: Grandma's Hands: Real Ethics Reform in DC Max Skolnik 2011
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Blagojevich now facing prison time for his self-enrichment schemes, it is time to renew our efforts at reform.
Sheila Simon: Time for a More Open and Honest Government Sheila Simon 2011
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