self-sacrificing Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˌselfˈsæk.rɪ.faɪ.sɪŋ]
  • Us [ ˌselfˈsæk.rə.faɪ.sɪŋ]

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  • Don't even think about making some noble self-sacrificing gesture.

  • They were extremely decent, self-sacrificing parents who paid for me and my brother to go to school.

  • We elect self-sacrificing people who put the welfare of the community ahead of personal advancement.

  • To sum up, the conventional understanding of market relationships can be expressed by two oppositions: market/social and self-regarding/ self-sacrificing.

  • To so violate the terms of the nurturing, self-sacrificing womanly ideal would make her monstrous.

  • In this sense, other-regarding preferences are necessarily self-sacrificing.

  • These organizations are able to get high-quality labour at low wages, not because their low wages select workers with self-sacrificing preferences, but because of cross-subsidization.

  • We have, however, idealized fictional accounts of the emotional ties between siblings and the sense of friendship and love that can motivate self-sacrificing behavior.

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