vest

Word family

vest1 /vest/ noun [countableC]

1. British EnglishBrE a piece of underwear without sleeves that you wear on the top half of your body (内衣)背心，汗衫 SYN American English undershirt →4 See picture of 见图 UNDERWEAR →5 see picture at 见图 underwear

2 a piece of special clothing without sleeves that you wear over your clothes to protect your body 防护用背心

a bulletproof vest

防弹背心

3. American EnglishAmE a piece of clothing without sleeves and with buttons down the front that you wear as part of a suit 马甲，西装背心 SYN British English waistcoat

4. a sweater without sleeves 毛背心，毛坎肩

Examples from the Corpus

vest• All his underclothes, his sports socks, his trousers and vests were smeared with shit.• The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.• Du Pont used to allow local police officers to train on his estate, and equipped the department with expensive bulletproof vests.• Women invented Liquid Paper, the Melitta coffee filter system, the Kevlar material used for bulletproof vests, and much more.• Her body was swathed in towels, except for the gap where her vest was pulled up.• 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.• I was very glad of my thermal vest, three layers of woollies, and waterproof and windproof outer garments.

vest2 verb law

1 vest something in somebody phrasal verbphr v law GIVEto give someone the official right to do or own something 授予，赋予，给予〔某人权利〕

著作权归作者所有，为期50年。

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vest in • Exciting, unfamiliar and lively means fresh copy for the press, which has a vested interest in chaos.• Well, he obviously has a vested interest in having some one else to blame.• So, Bianca and her suitors have a vested interest in marrying off nasty Kate.• In a sea power economy, vested interests are in open markets and free trade.• Even fewer are unattached to vested interests in the debate.• The power to grant pardons is vested in the president alone.• Each team has a direct and vested interest in the quality and delivery performance.• Apparently the idea is being spiked by vested interests in the sugar industry.• We know that advertisers have a vested interest in their power to suspend our disbelief.

Examples from the Corpus

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

From Longman Business Dictionary

vestvest /vest/ verb [transitiveT]

FINANCE if shares, stocks etc are vested, they are owned by someone

About one-third of these options are vested and can be exercised by shareholders at any time.

→ vest something in somebody

→ vest somebody with something

Origin vest1

(1600-1700) French veste, from Latin vestis “piece of clothing”

vest2

(1400-1500) Old French vestir “to clothe, invest”, from Latin vestire “to clothe”, from vestis; → VEST1

vest1 nounvest2 verb

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