vestedvest‧ed /ˈvestɪd/ adjective 
Since he owns the strip of land, Cook has a vested interest in the project being approved.2vested interests the groups of people who will gain from a plan, project, proposal etc: The proposal faces tough opposition from powerful vested interests.3vested rights, powers, property etc belong to you and cannot be removed: Shareholders have a vested right to 10% per annum.4technical having full rights to own or have somethingbecome/get vested (in something) He only took the job to get vested in the pension fund.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- After three years in the pension plan, you become fully vested.
- 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.
- There are too many vested interests.
- They thus have a vested interest in their conservation.
- This is made doubly difficult where there is a concurrent struggle for power among vested interest groups and individuals.
Longman Language Activatorwhen you have a particular reason for doing something
to have a reason for doing something - used especially when you do not want to say what that reason is: · I know I don't always explain myself, but you must always do what I say. I have reasons.have reasons for: · Each of us had reasons for wanting to leave.have reasons to do something: · I have reasons not to confide in you or anyone else.have your reasons: · I know it sounds silly but I have my reasons, believe me.
to be the reasons why someone does something, especially when you know they have a reason but do not know what it is: · Do you think that your decision is fair? What are your reasons?be sb's reasons for doing something: · What were his reasons for leaving the country so quickly?
to do something for a secret reason when everyone thinks you are doing it for a different reason: · You're so suspicious. Whenever I buy you a present, you think I have ulterior motives.· It was difficult to accept that she had no ulterior motives. Why would she want to see the office records?
if you have a vested interest in something happening, you have a strong reason for wanting it to happen because you will get an advantage from it: · The committee should be independent of all vested interest.have a vested interest in something: · Both the newspaper and the advertising agency have a vested interest in encouraging advertising.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Since he owns the strip of land, Cook has a vested interest in the project being approved. Shareholders have a vested right to 10% per annum. He only took the job to get vested in the pension fund.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
Since he owns the strip of land, Cook has a vested interest in the project being approved. Shareholders have a vested right to 10% per annum. He only took the job to get vested in the pension fund.· Jerry has obvious vested interests to protect.· To that extent, I declare a vested interest.· Others point to the rapid growth of military-industrial complexes with vested interests in international hostility.· There are too many vested interests.· So I had a vested interest in her being around to talk to me.· Both were professional people with a vested interest in helping people - a doctor and a Baptist minister.· Critics of opponents to development frequently accuse them of being blinded by nostalgia and motivated by personal vested interest.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1 vested interest a strong reason for wanting something to happen because you will gain from it: - Both the newspaper and the advertising agency have a vested interest in encouraging advertising.
- The committee should be independent of all vested interest.
- A person from outside the process area who has no vested interest in an issue makes the best facilitator.
- Enormous vested interests will need to be overcome to bring about such changes.
- Jerry has obvious vested interests to protect.
- Lots of people have a vested interest in the past.
- Or to create a rational design that goes against vested interests will likely not be implemented.
- They thus have a vested interest in their conservation.
- Powerful vested interests are keeping American products out of that market.
- 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.
- Others point to the rapid growth of military-industrial complexes with vested interests in international hostility.
- 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.
- This is the strange case with the vested interests in production.
Since he owns the strip of land, Cook has a vested interest in the project being approved.2vested interests the groups of people who will gain from a plan, project, proposal etc: The proposal faces tough opposition from powerful vested interests.3vested rights, powers, property etc belong to you and cannot be removed: Shareholders have a vested right to 10% per annum.4technical having full rights to own or have somethingbecome/get vested (in something) He only took the job to get vested in the pension fund.