vested

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vest·ed /ˈvestɪd/ adjectiveadj

1 vested interest a strong reason for wanting something to happen because you will gain from it 既得利益，既定利益

Since he owns the strip of land, Cook has a vested interest in the project being approved.

库克拥有那块地，因此这个项目获批他是有既定好处的。

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has ... vested interest• Even though the white woman is oppressed herself, she has a vested interest in apartheid.• 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.• The agent also has a vested interest in keeping the event's costs at a minimum.• Practically everybody involved has a vested interest in making the child drop her claim.

2 vested interests REASONthe groups of people who will gain from a plan, project, proposal etc 既得利益集团

The proposal faces tough opposition from powerful vested interests.

那项建议面临强大的既得利益集团的强烈反对。

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vested interests• 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.• Powerful vested interests are keeping American products out of that market.• Others point to the rapid growth of military-industrial complexes with vested interests in international hostility.• This is the strange case with the vested interests in production.• 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.

3 vested rights, powers, property etc belong to you and cannot be removed 〔权利、财产等〕既定的

Shareholders have a vested right to 10% per annum.

股东享有每年10%分红的既定权利。

4 technical having full rights to own or have something 有权享受的

become/get vested (in something)

He only took the job to get vested in the pension fund.

他接受那份工作只是想有权享受养老金。

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vested• After three years in the pension plan, you become fully vested.• This is made doubly difficult where there is a concurrent struggle for power among vested interest groups and individuals.• As a prominent socialist, Webb had a vested interest in explaining developments in the way she did.• Practically everybody involved has a vested interest in making the child drop her claim.• They thus have a vested interest in their conservation.• There are too many vested interests.

become/get vested (in something)• Retirement: Linda has jumped from job to job, never staying long enough to become vested in a retirement plan.

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