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vest

 (vĕst)
n.
1. A sleeveless garment, often having buttons down the front, worn usually over a shirt or blouse and sometimes as part of a three-piece suit.
2. A waist-length, sleeveless garment worn for protection: a warm down vest; a bulletproof vest.
3. A fabric trim worn to fill in the neckline of a woman's garment; a vestee.
4. Chiefly British An undershirt.
5. Obsolete An ecclesiastical vestment.
v. vest·ed, vest·ing, vests
v.tr.
1. To place (authority, property, or rights, for example) in the control of a person or group, especially to give someone an immediate right to present or future possession or enjoyment of (an estate, for example). Used with in: vested his estate in his daughter.
2. To invest or endow (a person or group) with something, such as power or rights. Used with with: vested the council with broad powers; vests its employees with full pension rights after five years of service.
3. To clothe or robe, as in ecclesiastical vestments.
v.intr.
1. To become legally vested: stock options that vest after the second year of employment.
2. To dress oneself, especially in ecclesiastical vestments.

[French veste, robe, from Italian vesta, from Latin vestis, garment; see wes- in Indo-European roots.]
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vesting

(ˈvɛstɪŋ)
n
(Law) law the act of conferring a right upon (someone) which is immediately secured
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vest•ing

(ˈvɛs tɪŋ)

n.
the granting to an employee of the right to pension benefits despite retirement before the usual time or age.
[1940–45]
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References in classic literature ?
They are only declaratory of a truth which would have resulted by necessary and unavoidable implication from the very act of constituting a federal government, and vesting it with certain specified powers.
Of these, 551,000 are subject to time-based vesting and will vest annually over a four-year period.
J converts the MPPP into a profit-sharing plan that covers the same employees and contains the same vesting schedule.
Vesting schedule: for Flagstar, 100% immediate vesting; for Denny's, five-year cliff vesting.
Note 1: Generally, an employer that experiences a high turnover in the first two years will consider the two-year waiting period with immediate vesting. This alleviates the need for setting up accounts and handling forfeitures for a number of employees.
49,820 of the restricted stock units will vest over four years with 25% vesting on the first anniversary of the vesting commencement date and the remaining 75% vesting quarterly in equal installments, subject to the employees' continued service to Imperva through each applicable vesting date.
93-27, by addressing the impact of vesting on the receipt of a partnership interest.
The statement presumes the service period is the vesting period, unless the stock-option plan defines some shorter period, and it contains special provisions for options with graded vesting on attributing compensation cost over the vesting period.
(Pension expense is attributed from the hire date to the vesting date.
The three conditions relate to the amount of the employer contribution, the vesting schedule used for employer contributions and an annual employee notification.
As the SEC and FASB stock-option initiatives build momentum, it's clear that the special characteristics of executive options, especially vesting restrictions, must be incorporated into the valuation model.
The company said the stock options vest over four years, with 25% of the shares vesting on 25 February 2017 for Chapman and 25% of the shares vesting on 3 March 2017 for Peterson plus additional 6.25% of the shares vesting at the end of each subsequent quarter thereafter, subject to each executive's continued service through the applicable vesting dates.