Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Law Settled, fixed, or absolute; being without contingency.
- adjective Having full ownership rights, especially after certain conditions such as a period of service, have been met.
- adjective Dressed or clothed, especially in ecclesiastical vestments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Clothed; especially, wearing, or having assumed, state robes or some ceremonial costume: as, a vested choir.
- In heraldry, clothed; draped: used especially when the clothing is of a different tincture from the rest of the bearing. This blazon is more usual when only a part of the body is represented. Also
clothed . - Not in a state of contingency or suspension: fixed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.
- adjective (Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed.
- adjective (Law) a legacy the right to which commences
in præsenti , and does not depend on a contingency; as, a legacy to one to be paid when he attains to twenty-one years of age is avested legacy , and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it. - adjective (Law) an estate settled, to remain to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective : (law)
settled ,fixed orabsolute , with nocontingencies . - adjective :
dressed orclothed , especially investments - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
vest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective fixed and absolute and without contingency
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Examples
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In recent months, some Communist Party elites have privately debated the necessity of those reforms with renewed vigor; some of the discussion has crept into public discourse, and there are a growing number of attacks by intellectuals and former officials on what they call the "vested interests" that threaten to take China further down the road of crony capitalism.
NYT > Global Home By MICHAEL WINES 2012
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In recent months, some Communist Party elites have privately debated the necessity of those reforms with renewed vigor; some of the discussion has crept into public discourse, and there are a growing number of attacks by intellectuals and former officials on what they call the "vested interests" that threaten to take China further down the road of crony capitalism.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL WINES 2012
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In recent months, some Communist Party elites have privately debated the necessity of those reforms with renewed vigor; some of the discussion has crept into public discourse, and there are a growing number of attacks by intellectuals and former officials on what they call the "vested interests" that threaten to take China further down the road of crony capitalism.
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL WINES 2012
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Suppose you once again vested your time, money, and yes, your battered hopes, and then helped elect some good people and stop some blindly destructive ones.
Paul Loeb: Suppose Your Actions Swung the Election Paul Loeb 2010
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Suppose you once again vested your time, money, and yes, your battered hopes, and then helped elect some good people and stop some blindly destructive ones.
Paul Loeb: Suppose Your Actions Swung the Election Paul Loeb 2010
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The big money insurance companies where you people's money are vested is the only ones who will benefit.
Republicans raising cash to counter-program ABC Obama special 2009
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I began to discover that certain vested interests involving the Huichol did not welcome outsiders.
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Suppose you once again vested your time, money, and yes, your battered hopes, and then helped elect some good people and stop some blindly destructive ones.
Paul Loeb: Suppose Your Actions Swung the Election Paul Loeb 2010
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I began to discover that certain vested interests involving the Huichol did not welcome outsiders.
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Suppose you once again vested your time, money, and yes, your battered hopes, and then helped elect some good people and stop some blindly destructive ones.
Paul Loeb: Suppose Your Actions Swung the Election Paul Loeb 2010
dbekeny commented on the word vested
WIZARD
Therefore, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Universitatus
Committeeatum e plurbis unum, I hereby
confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D
June 11, 2010