Definitions for vested

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vested vest·ed

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IPA: /ˈvɛs tɪd/

Vested is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in vested (deestv).

Definitions for vested

noun

1. a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.
2. a part or trimming simulating the front of such a garment; vestee. Compare dickey1 (def 1).
3. a waist-length garment worn for protective purposes:
4. 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:
5. British. an undervest or undershirt.
6. a long garment resembling a cassock, worn by men in the time of Charles II.
7. Archaic. dress; apparel. an outer garment, robe, or gown. an ecclesiastical vestment.

Idioms

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

adjective

1. held completely, permanently, and inalienably:
2. protected or established by law, commitment, tradition, ownership, etc.:
3. clothed or robed, especially in ecclesiastical vestments:
4. having a vest; sold with a vest:

verb (used with object)

1. to clothe; dress; robe.
2. to dress in ecclesiastical vestments:
3. to cover or drape (an altar).
4. to place or settle (something, especially property, rights, powers, etc.) in the possession or control of someone (usually followed by in):
5. to invest or endow (a person, group, committee, etc.) with something, as powers, functions, or rights:

verb (used without object)

1. to put on vestments.
2. to become vested in a person, as a right.
3. to devolve upon a person as possessor; pass into possession or ownership.

Origin of vested

First recorded in 1665-75; vest + -ed²

Examples for vested

Sure, Hooters may have a vested financial interests in breasts—or rather, a very specific type of breast.

Surely, for anyone with a vested interest in science, reason, and the idea of secular politics, this is deeply depressing news.

“[Patients] have a vested interest in seeing the product developed,” he says.

“They are the monied land-owners, the vested interests,” he put in.

State governments have vested interests in wanting it this way.

Where the authority is vested in a board, that board is usually appointed by the governor.

You have no vested interest to be imperilled by anything that I do.'

Matters from the smallest to the greatest were vested in the local power.

Likewise, local pro-China Hongkongers with vested economic interests could have taken part.

Bessie is just awake, and has come out to survey her vested belongings.