vest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
law
Etymology: Derived from French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra) and Spanish vestir.
Inflected forms:
form: vests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.
gloss: A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
pos: noun
gloss: Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
pos: noun
examples: He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof vest if you could still get gunned to death?
gloss: A vestment.
pos: noun
examples: In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.
gloss: Clothing generally; array; garb.
pos: noun
examples: Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.
gloss: A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
pos: verb
tags: passive
examples: Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
With ether vested, and a purple sky.
gloss: To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
pos: verb
examples: to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
Had thy poor breast receiv’d an equal pain; / Had I been vested with the monarch’s power; / Thou must have sigh’d, unlucky youth, in vain; / Nor from my bounty hadst thou found a cure.
gloss: To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
pos: verb
examples: The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
, Book I
Empire and dominion […] was vested in him.
gloss: To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
pos: verb
examples: to vest a person with an estate
an estate is vested in possession
For the right of the crown vests[…]upon his heir.
gloss: (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.
gloss: To become vested, to become permanent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.
If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest, you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well.
2007, Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC
Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest.
They were, they said tipsily, essentially being paid to do nothing while earning out — or “vesting” — their stock grants. “Rest and vest,” the techies said, in between sips of beer.
gloss: To invest; to put.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: to vest money in goods, land, or houses
Related words: invest
vest frottoir
vestibule
vestment
vesture
wear
Derived words: ballistic vest
bulletproof vest
close to one's vest
close to the vest
keep one's cards close to one's vest
lifevest
life vest
more life in a tramp's vest
Posey vest
ranger vest
rash vest
rest and vest
sleeves from one's vest
sobre-vest
string vest
suicide vest
sweater vest
tech vest
vest buster
vest date
vest in interest
vest pocket
vest-pocket
weighted vest
yellow vest
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: صُدَيْرِيّ
roman: ṣudayriyy
lang: Bulgarian
word: фланелка
roman: flanelka
lang: Catalan
word: samarreta
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 背心
roman: bui³ sam¹
lang: Czech
word: tílko
lang: Czech
word: nátělník
lang: Esperanto
word: subĉemizo
lang: Finnish
word: aluspaita
lang: French
word: tricot de corps
lang: Georgian
word: პერანგი
roman: ṗerangi
lang: Georgian
word: მაისური
roman: maisuri
lang: German
word: Unterhemd
lang: German
word: Liibli
lang: Greek
word: φανέλα
roman: fanéla
lang: Hungarian
word: trikó
lang: Icelandic
word: nærbolur
lang: Indonesian
word: singlet
lang: Italian
word: canottiera
lang: Macedonian
word: потко́шула
roman: potkóšula
lang: Macedonian
word: до́лна ма́ица
roman: dólna máica
lang: Malay
word: singlet
lang: Maltese
word: flokk ta’ taħt
lang: Māori
word: hingareti
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: trøye
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: trøye
lang: Polish
word: podkoszulek
lang: Polish
word: podkoszulka
lang: Portuguese
word: regata
lang: Russian
word: ма́йка
roman: májka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fo-lèine
lang: Spanish
word: camiseta de tirantes
lang: Swedish
word: linne
lang: German
word: verleihen
lang: German
word: übergeben
lang: Italian
word: investitura