vest
noun
a close-fitting, waist-length, sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, designed to be worn under a jacket.
have vested
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present perfectof vest.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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During the past two decades, SpaceX has hired thousands of staff and granted them boatloads of restricted stock units, incentive stock options and nonqualified stock options that have vested over time.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
“It’s awesome because everybody who sits in that room or everybody who has a seat at the table, we all have vested interest,” Spikes said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
“We’re off the market, which allows us both to have vested interest in our friends’ love lives.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
But this is why "We the People" have vested in our government the power to regulate commerce.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2021
When then a law is in the nature of a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law can not devest those rights; ...
From The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith
