vested
3
6.9
- adjective
- /ˈvɛstɪd/
- Formal
:
adquirido
- The law ensures that employees have a vested right to their benefits, protecting them from arbitrary changes.
- vested interest
Well, I'm always vested in stocks, equities and real estate.
- Well, I'm always vested in stocks, equities and real estate.
- But I am absolutely vested in how my daughter is treated and the opportunity she has, Right.
- Which brings me to my own large vested interest in this topic.
- You're making the content in your vested interest, not the audiences.
- And and so I was so vested in doing that.
- Ukraine, NATO, you're all vested in Europe.
- So I'm strongly vested in you having children, but only in the friendly kind of way.
- And I know you guys are all deeply vested in exactly this nut to crack is that we've moved from complicated problems.
- I think the trend of this video has been, is that forgivable By the power vested to me by absolutely no one, you are all forgiven.
Examples
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The world's clearly changing, and too many people in this room are holding on to the past because it is in their vested financial interest.
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Much of the calamity is predicted by people who have a very vested interest in seeing 1099.
Blog text (13) -
And if we interest ourselves in boys and girls as well as in geometry and history, our vested interests will be safe.
Academic text (1995) -
We are irritated, of course, because our vested interests are threatened.
Academic text (1995) -
I am left to ponder just what vested interest the media outlets have in the project.
Blog text (11) -
I'm not a medical doctor, so I have no vested interest in keeping the pharmaceutical industry afloat.
Blog text (28) -
You have a vested interest in getting off; the officer (supposedly) has no vested interest in your conviction.
Blog text (7) -
Only this time they'd had no need for vengeance, no vested interest in prolonging their victim's suffering.
Fiction book (1991) -
But in a landslide by the power vested in me, our prom queen is Zach Cornfax.
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And I'd be lying to you if I said that I didn't factor in, in a huge way, the fact that you have a vested, personal, political and patriotic interest in how all of this shakes out.
Antonyms
Compounds
30
3.8
A person or group that benefits from the current situation and tries to keep it
- Formal
1
5.2
A legal right someone already has that cannot be taken away and can be moved to another person
How Secure
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Vested comes from the Latin vestire 'to clothe' and the idea of a vest as a piece of clothing. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a right or benefit as a garment you have been given to wear—because it is 'vested' it is yours, fixed, and protected by law.