"Hey guys! Look! My wife's work provided all we needed to approved my experimental shot! Really pays off to have your wife work at NIH. Don't look at the 12,000+ reported VAERS deaths.. My wife gots my back!" con·flict of in·ter·est Learn to pronounce noun a situation in which the concerns or aims of two different parties are incompatible. "the conflict of interest between elected officials and corporate lobbyists" a situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or decisions made in their official capacity. "Watson quit his job after questions about a possible conflict of interest"