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- noun Plural form of
vested interest . - noun those
groups that seek tocontrol an existingsystem oractivity from which they derivebenefit
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Popularized in sociology by Thorstein Veblen, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, 1919. From legal notion of a vested (‘secured, permanent’) interest.
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