vested
pronunciation
How to pronounce vested in British English:
UK ['vestɪd]
How to pronounce vested in American English:
US ['vestɪd]
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- Adjective:
- fixed and absolute and without contingency
Word Origin
- vested (adj.)
- "established, secured, settled, not in a state of contingency," 1766, past participle adjective from vest (v.).
Example
- 1. It is shaped more by vested financial and political interests than by ideology or geopolitics .
- 2. With many groups predicting that human immortality is just around the corner , you could say we all have a vested interest in the answer .
- 3. Another concern is that the people who take part in the project will represent vested interests-in particular , big technology firms which can assign staff to review patents .
- 4. He has long attacked what he calls " vested interests " - code for crony capitalism , in which firms make profits by buying favours from officials and politicians .
- 5. A capitalist society comes to have a vested interest in praising " individuality " and " freedom " -- which may mean little more than the right to the perpetual aggrandizement of the self , and the freedom to shop , to acquire , to use up , to consume , to render obsolete .