vest

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

vests

1.
(Canada, US)A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
Đồng nghĩa: waistcoat
2.
(British)A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
Đồng nghĩa: singlet, tank top, undershirt
3.
A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
4.
Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
5.
A vestment.
6.
Clothing generally; array; garb.
Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.
7.
(archaic)(now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.

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verb

V_es/s

vests

V_ing/Gerund

vesting

V_ed/pp

vested

1.
(passive)(chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
2.
To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
3.
To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
, Book I Empire and dominion […] was vested in him.
4.
(law) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
to vest a person with an estate
an estate is vested in possession
5.
(intransitive)(law, intransitive) (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.
Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.
6.
(intransitive)(finance, intransitive) To become vested, to become permanent.
My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.
2007, Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest.
7.
(obsolete)To invest; to put.
to vest money in goods, land, or houses

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Đồng nghĩa

waistcoat singlettank topundershirt

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro French veste (a vest, jacket), from Latin vestis (a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (to be dressed) (wear). Cognate with and vestir.