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vested

[ves-tid]

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adjective

held completely, permanently, and inalienably: vested rights.

protected or established by law, commitment, tradition, ownership, etc.: vested contributions to a fund.

clothed or robed, especially in ecclesiastical vestments: a vested priest.

having a vest; sold with a vest: a vested suit.

Origin:
1665–75; vest + -ed²

Related forms

non·vest·ed, adjective

un·vest·ed, adjective

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Example Sentences

Most of the time, such shortages exist in the minds of vested interests.

But those ideas are often rejected because the creative innovator must stand up to vested interests and defy the crowd.

Too many vested interests and national rivalries have been at stake.

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Most of the time, such shortages exist in the minds of vested interests.

But those ideas are often rejected because the creative innovator must stand up to vested interests and defy the crowd.

Too many vested interests and national rivalries have been at stake.

Its more likely a vested interest, rather than a personal opinion.

The lender has a vested interest in the continuity and success of a seilf sustaining venture.

If you've been working less than six months, you may not have any sick leave vested.

He also had a vested interest in keeping the ever-vanishing hired help.

Their vested interest has frustrated efforts at oversight.

Offcourse the vested interst of oil lobbists will be harmed.

There aren't many people with vested interests in the new.

He said dismissal would not affect the principal's vested pension.

If there are no members, governance is vested in the hands of a self-perpetuating board of directors or trustees.

Although there is no lack of ideas for economic reform, there is a dearth of plans to overcome vested interests.

It's obvious the men posting the above comments are not affected by the topic, therefore have no vested interest.

As a result, one-third of the options granted probably vested.

So, although there may be vested interests out there, research is not the enemy of innovation or change.

The newspaper editorialists who call for campaign-finance reform, he says, are driven by a vested interest.

The fact is that there are vested interests in this matter to continue things the way they are going presently.

Reed leading the charge against the legal doctrine of vested rights.

In many cases, administrators have a vested interest in variations of the status quo.

Yet plenty of vested interests are ranged against such changes.

The magazine, run by people with no vested interest in it being true, understands what you may not.

Stires, preached, and the music was supplied by the vested choir of the church.

We certainly have a vested interest in knowing who the students are attending our schools.

However, in the face of vested interests that could influence voters, little is currently being done to implement the legislation.

The trouble is that those vested interests get in the way.

People generally have a weakness towards their religion and this situation is exploited by vested interest.

Grateful patients make unofficial payments to their doctors, who have a vested interest in stressing their essential role.

In such cases, the majority is self-perpetuating while perpetuating the vested interests which made it a majority.

Protection from vested interests is not a bad thing.

Japan's economy is clogged with aging vested interests, frustrating the young people needed to maintain its edge.

His or her success depends to a larger extent on yours, so he or she has a vested interest in how well you.

Formally, executive power is vested in the governor-general.

Beware others who have a vested interested in playing down any therapy's that offer help to drug or alcohol users.

Bradley had a vested interest in coming forward since his software was used in the investigation.

Add to that the vested interests of an establishment and you have a force for inertia.

Activist organizations have a vested interest in keeping intelligence alive on the ground, and they have plenty of resources.

While impartiality is all but impossible, those who serve on these boards should not have a vested interest in either agenda.

Investment bankers themselves have a vested interest in not blowing up their firms.

Gold argues, is a mirage that has served vested interests among oil producers for decades.

It is neighborhoodoriented, and many residents seem to have a vested interest in keeping it that way.

Vested interests only grow hungrier with the gorging:.

What's really needed is to get vested interests out of politics.

The discussion is dominated by vested interests and the extremes.

Getting advice is only worthwhile if the person giving it doesn't have a myopic view, or a vested interest in badly advising you.

There is also a huge vested interest in sustaining new car prices because of the effect they have on secondhand values.

Without some realistic basis for decision making, planners would be groping in the dark at the whim of vested interests.

DoJ knows this statute, loves it, and has a vested interest in having it cover clickstream info.

Vested interests are being disturbed and new ones created.

Once their share options are fully vested they consider leaving.

We've got the companies that have a vested interest in advancing the whole move toward an information-based economy.

The agency would be vested with coastal land-use and environmental planning powers now held by.

Heading the entire civil service means respecting its myriad vested interests in the status quo.

NetWitness, markets computer security equipment to the government and has a vested interest in the outcome of this debate.

They have a vested interest in making a positive difference and feel they are making a difference in somebody's life.

List the present value of any future benefits which are essentially vested.

Their persistence, presumably, reflects the vested interests of the people who decided to support them in the first place.

It said the option of maintaining open or closed primary systems was vested exclusively with the political parties.

Even formula companies, which have a vested interest in getting women to.

The banks have a vested interest in keeping the bond market stable.

Those who benefit from the system, who have made it to the top, have a vested interesting in keeping the system.

First, its seven members all seem to have a vested interest in the current game.

Because it makes money for the plan when people leave the plan before being fully vested.

Other vested interests seize upon such anxieties to press their favoured alternatives.

The hospitals have a vested interest in shielding these providers as they bring them business.

There are many more who are not vested in this fashion.

Yet health policy teems with sacred cows and vested interests that make sweeping reform all but.

The latter have a vested interest in maintaining and sustaining the drug trade.

Berlusconi struggles to appease the conflicting vested interests within his own.

Unfortunately, there are those with a strong vested interest in how the loan program is currently.

But the conflict between them involves powerful vested interests.

Public relations are needed primarily to deal with those who have a vested interest in keeping people from knowing the truth.

Summit conferences become battlegrounds for vested groups to carry on ideological trench warfare by other means.

There is a vested interest in the status quo in the nuclear power industry.

And those sites have a vested interest in keeping it that way.

Trying to push up house prices benefits stagnant vested interests at the expense of the consumer.

However, medical progress is sometimes made at a snail's pace partly because established vested interests feel threatened.

He insisted that she was being manipulated by an unnamed third party with vested interests in her career.

What is needed is to cut through these vested interests and allow logical, well-founded new theories to emerge.

Variance within countries is harder for public-sector unions and other local vested interests to ignore.

Democracy requires people to have unbiased information and an equal say in decision making, free of pandering by vested interests.

Environmentalists are quick to accuse their opponents in business of having vested interests.

Abhisit had a chance to prove that he was independent of the vested interests that brough him to power.

COLLAPSE

Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.

a part or trimming simulating the front of such a garment; vestee. Compare dickey¹ (def. 1).

a waist-length garment worn for protective purposes: a bulletproof vest.

a sleeveless, waist- or hip-length garment made of various materials, with a front opening usually secured by buttons, a zipper, or the like, worn over a shirt, blouse, dress, or other article for style or warmth: a sweater vest; a down vest.

British. an undervest or undershirt.

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a long garment resembling a cassock, worn by men in the time of Charles II.

Archaic.

dress; apparel.

an outer garment, robe, or gown.

an ecclesiastical vestment.

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verb (used with object)

to clothe; dress; robe.

to dress in ecclesiastical vestments: to vest a bishop.

10.

to cover or drape (an altar).

11.

to place or settle (something, especially property, rights, powers, etc.) in the possession or control of someone (usually followed by in): to vest authority in a new official.

12.

to invest or endow (a person, group, committee, etc.) with something, as powers, functions, or rights: to vest the board with power to increase production; to vest an employee with full benefits in the pension plan.

verb (used without object)

13.

to put on vestments.

14.

to become vested in a person, as a right.

15.

to devolve upon a person as possessor; pass into possession or ownership.

Idiom

16.

play it close to the vest, Informal. to avoid taking unnecessary risks.

Origin:
1375–1425; (noun) late Middle English < Italian veste robe, dress < Latin vestis garment; (v.) late Middle English < Middle French vestir < Latin vestīre to clothe, derivative of vestis; akin to wear

Related forms

vest·less, adjective

vest·like, adjective

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World English Dictionary

vested (ˈvɛstɪd)

—*adj*
	property law Compare contingent having a present right to the immediate or future possession and enjoyment of property

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Word Origin & History

vest

1613, "loose outer garment" (worn by men in Eastern countries or in ancient times), from Fr. veste, from It. vesta, veste "robe, gown," from L. vestis, from vestire "to clothe" (see vest (v.)). The sleeveless garment worn by men beneath the coat was introduced by Charles II.

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"The King hath yesterday, in Council, declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes .... It will be a vest, I know not well how; but it is to teach the nobility thrift." [Pepys, "Diary," Oct. 8, 1666] COLLAPSE

Slang Dictionary

vest definition

n.
an important businessman or businesswoman. (See also suit.) : Some vest jumped out the window this afternoon.
n.
a bullet-proof vest. : The cop wasn't wearing a vest, and the shot killed him.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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