A sleeveless garment, often having buttons down the front, worn usually over a shirt or blouse and sometimes as part of a three-piece suit.
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A waist-length, sleeveless garment worn for protection: a warm down vest; a bulletproof vest.
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Archaic Clothing; raiment.
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Chiefly British An undershirt.
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Obsolete An ecclesiastical vestment.
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verb-intransitive
To become legally vested.
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To dress oneself, especially in ecclesiastical vestments.
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verb-transitive
To clothe or robe, as in ecclesiastical vestments.
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To invest or endow (a person or group) with something, such as power or rights. Used with with: vested the council with broad powers; vests its employees with full pension rights after five years of service.
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To place (authority, property, or rights, for example) in the control of a person or group, especially to give someone an immediate right to present or future possession or enjoyment of (an estate, for example). Used with in: vested his estate in his daughter.
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verb
To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority.
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To give to a person a legally fixed immediate right of present or future enjoyment of (as an estate).
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To grant or endow with a particular authority, right, or property .
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To clothe with or as if with a garment.
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To robe in ecclesiastical .
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