VEST


Meaning of VEST in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

life vest

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

bulletproof

Women invented Liquid Paper, the Melitta coffee filter system, the Kevlar material used for bulletproof vests , and much more.

The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.

Had she been favored with a Sweet 16 gala, the Phoenix miss would have taken her bows wearing a bulletproof vest .

running

A red cotton T-shirt or running vest is available at a nominal charge of £1.00 together with sponsorship forms.

Sally has donated her official Barcelona running vest to the appeal, which has a goal of £60,000.

Call John Girling on for your free running vest , car sticker, sweatband and sponsor form.

■ NOUN

life

The outboard was gone, too, and the gas can and the orange life vest and the two fiberglass oars.

Kathy pulled her arms inside the life vest .

All wore life vests , officials said.

She loaded the oars and gas can and life vest , then turned to close the boathouse doors.

Kathy tucked her chin into the life vest , closed her eyes.

Maybe she forgot to put on the life vest .

State regulations require whitewater boaters to wear helmets and life vests .

All three were wearing life vests and were unhurt.

pocket

He took out a flask from his vest pocket and poured it into the glass.

And then Hardin withdrew a two-credit coin from his vest pocket .

■ VERB

wear

He would often be dressed in just a loose-fitting pair of shorts, but sometimes deigned to wear a vest as well.

They wore leather vests and high-heeled sneakers, body suits and spandex, trying to get noticed.

Tabitha was also wearing a white vest and Helena a shirt.

The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.

He was wearing only a sleeveless vest and a pair of short pants that reached almost to his bony knees.

About one hundred state troopers wearing bulletproof vests kept the groups well separated after a fistfight broke out in the afternoon.

Even in this weather he was wearing a sleeveless vest .

Women wear gowns with trains of fabric trailing after them; men wear vests and jackets.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

vested interest

Both the newspaper and the advertising agency have a vested interest in encouraging advertising.

The committee should be independent of all vested interest.

A person from outside the process area who has no vested interest in an issue makes the best facilitator.

Enormous vested interests will need to be overcome to bring about such changes.

Jerry has obvious vested interests to protect.

Lots of people have a vested interest in the past.

Or to create a rational design that goes against vested interests will likely not be implemented.

They thus have a vested interest in their conservation.

vested interests

Powerful vested interests are keeping American products out of that market.

Even fewer are unattached to vested interests in the debate.

In jails, at the hands of landlords, vested interests, police, during the Emergency.

Jerry has obvious vested interests to protect.

Others point to the rapid growth of military-industrial complexes with vested interests in international hostility.

Probably the last of the true amateur captains, his decisions were not controlled by monetary or vested interests.

That is partly a function of habit and experience, and partly the result of emerging vested interests.

This is the strange case with the vested interests in production.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All his underclothes, his sports socks, his trousers and vests were smeared with shit.

Du Pont used to allow local police officers to train on his estate, and equipped the department with expensive bulletproof vests.

Her body was swathed in towels, except for the gap where her vest was pulled up.

I was very glad of my thermal vest , three layers of woollies, and waterproof and windproof outer garments.

Old opinions were shed, stuffy woolly shabby old liberal vests and comforters were left piled on the shore.

The outboard was gone, too, and the gas can and the orange life vest and the two fiberglass oars.

The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.

Women invented Liquid Paper, the Melitta coffee filter system, the Kevlar material used for bulletproof vests, and much more.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

power

Firstly, the justification given by the model for vesting substantial managerial power in the hands of the directors will be investigated.

We know that advertisers have a vested interest in their power to suspend our disbelief.

On 8 August Franco signed a law vesting in himself total power over the administration of the state.

Civil rights, equal opportunity and Great Society legislation in the 1960s also vested more power in the federal government.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It was more efficient because decision making was vested in the director, whom I will call Faustino Mata.

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