Definition of Vested

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Definition of Vested
	Vested of Vest Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests. Related Definitions: As, Clothed, Contingency, Fixed, In, Not, Of, Or, Robed, State, Suspension, Vest, Vested, Wearing

Vested Quotations

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Richard M. Nixon

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
Susan Sontag

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
John Maynard Keynes

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
Brian Eno

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.
Charlize Theron

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
Ben Elton

Vested Translations

vested in German is bekleidet, bekleidete sich

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