transcription, транскрипция: [ vest ]
( vests, vesting, vested)
1.
A vest is a piece of underwear which you can wear on the top half of your body in order to keep warm. ( BRIT; in AM, use undershirt )
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2.
A vest is a sleeveless piece of clothing with buttons which people usually wear over a shirt. ( AM; in BRIT, use waistcoat )
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3.
If something is vested in you, or if you are vested with it, it is given to you as a right or responsibility. ( FORMAL )
All authority was vested in the woman, who discharged every kind of public duty...
The mass media have been vested with significant power as social and political agents in modern developed societies...
There’s an extraordinary amount of power vested in us.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed in n , be V-ed with n , V-ed