vesting
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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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