Definition of vest in English:

vest

noun vɛstvɛst

1British An undergarment worn on the upper part of the body, typically having no sleeves.
Example sentencesExamples
- He wore a beige shirt and trousers and a white vest under his shirt.
- The major contributions include vests, warm undergarments, warm socks and toiletries.
- The appeal is now in its final week and priority should be given to the gift donation of vests, warm undergarments, toiletries and socks.
- I stripped off my dress and pulled on a pair of pyjama bottoms and a vest, before climbing into bed.
- Val changed into her dress with the discreet vest underneath.
- I wore identical stuff to the first audition - faded jeans and a black vest.
- Eight vests, six stretchsuits, two cardigans, and one shawl or all-in-one coat are the bare essentials.
- His children, two young girls, are running in and out of the spray in vests and knickers.
- This week, many of the women are seemingly bra-less, or wearing strapless tops, vests, etc.
- After he dropped the bomb, soldiers ordered him to take off his vest and jeans, to ensure he had no other weapons on him.
- Another wore Bermuda shorts, a vest and sunglasses, and rode a surfboard just a few streets away from Wall Street.
- He had short black hair and wore a black vest, dark jeans, and a long gold necklace with a pendant.
- The more knowledgeable spectators in the crowd were able to pick out each club runner by the colour of his vest, almost the athletic version of train-spotting.
- Detectives have appealed for information about a male jogger wearing a blue vest and black tracksuit seen running in the area.
- Either way, the revolution that is Secret Support will doubtless make life so much easier and is available in a range of vests, bodies and t-shirts in a variety of colours and fabrics.
- She drifts on stage dressed in high-street chic: faded denim and a tracksuit top, which she slips off to reveal a pink camisole vest.
- She wears a sparkly top, not a boyish vest, with her jeans.
- They go with everything, look good with a sun tan, can be used as vests under shirts if the weather turns cold and can be slipped on over a swimming costume if the sun gets too strong.
- Keep your outfit neutral but use colour in a top, vest or camisole or with a fabulous scarf or chiffon shawl.
- The following items are needed: Warm socks, vests, underwear, toiletries Christmas cakes, boxes of biscuits, sweets, warm underclothing for men and warm blankets.
1. 1.1 A woman's sleeveless top.
  she stepped out in a striped vest and skinny jeans with strappy black heels
  Kim looked chic in her pink jeans and white vest top
  Example sentencesExamples
  The colour schemes are bright, with yellow and pink tie-dyes and vest tops matched with acid-washed denim.
  Not content with the attention from her show-stopping ear bling, the 25-year-old singer also wore an extremely sheer vest top.
  She was spotted wearing a red floral vest top with some knee-length denim shorts.
  Pair the plaid skirt with knee high socks, boots and a sequinned vest.
  She also donned a brightly coloured bikini underneath her vest, which displayed her very slender figure.
  Throw on a fitted leather jacket or an army green cargo vest to complete your relaxed yet cool look.
  The women, dressed in skinny jeans and vest tops, swoop in and out.
  At the entrance, the girls, who were wearing vest tops, were given T-shirts to cover their shoulders.
  Then later in the episode, she showed up wearing a denim vest.
  Teaming a checked shirt with a grey vest, she showed off her slim legs in a pair of form-fitting skinny jeans.
  We love the idea of pairing a printed maxi skirt with a statement vest, then sprinkling in snazzy accessories for added interest.
2A garment worn on the upper part of the body for a particular purpose.
a running vest
a bulletproof vest
Example sentencesExamples
- With their Kevlar vests and M16 rifles they looked much like any other occupying force.
- In stab vests and riot gear, police stormed a number of Ulverston homes looking for drugs yesterday in a series of high-profile raids.
- If this isn't possible, add a light to your bike and don a safety vest.
- On that trip, we could only carry our cameras and flak vests.
- A cheaper, quicker fix is to use a slip-on rubber pad and/or a shooting vest with a thick shoulder pad.
- Some of the vests now have a collar and groin protector.
- The vest has 23 pockets for all the gadgets turkey hunters manage to accumulate.
- It has not been much warmer in France than it was in Belgium and we started the first stage in leg warmers, thermal vests, gloves and hats.
- Other companies, Weatherby for example, have recently introduced wool hunting jackets and vests.
- She spent the last few minutes before the race wearing an ice vest to keep her body temperature down.
- On the sidewalk before stop lights start turning red, three people in the public works wearing orange reflective vests push three prams stripped to the metal.
- The flak vests were a little worn but still had the protection needed.
- Their coats, vests and jackets are made from unique breathable and waterproof Australian fabric.
- Although unisex vests are available in every police station in a variety of sizes, body armour is not currently personally issued to each officer.
- Nike is providing pre-cool jackets, vests filled with 12 cooled gel packs that can be worn for an hour before competing, and uniforms with ventilation panels.
- Some of the police were dressed in black fatigues; others were wearing suits underneath bullet-proof vests.
- Break surface, simultaneously remove regulator from mouth and fully inflate vest.
- However, a person dressed in the reflective vest commonly worn by security guards was seen lying face down on the front steps.
- Walsh was briefly trapped in the cockpit, managed to inflate his life vest, and rocketed to the surface.
- The dozen pockets of his safari vest are filled with gear.
3Australian US A waistcoat or sleeveless jacket.
Example sentencesExamples
- Above the navy skirt, she wore a white collared, long-sleeved blouse and matching blue knit sweater vest.
- Altair reached into his vest pocket and pulled out a stained, frayed handkerchief.
- In order to stay cool, Harris recommends that workers wear an undershirt beneath the vest.
- He settled on a conservative gray jacket with a darker vest beneath it.
- He pulled a notepad from his vest pocket, and flipped it open.
- Men typically wore trousers and a tailored shirt under a vest or coat.
- Instead of a stage and chairs, I found a bounty of discarded hats, sweaters, shirts, vests, pants, wigs, and costume apparel covering the floor and hanging on coat hooks.
- Dad's knitted vest will have to be finished next week.
- The only decent thing he wore was the sturdy red vest, almost a sleeveless jacket, with black embroidery at the neck and arm holes.
- Men in urban areas wear a felt or fur-trimmed hat, a short vest with sleeves, trousers, and a robe.
- This pattern gives you two unique looks in one sporty vest or jacket.
- After a couple of outfits, Sara decided on a sleeveless leather vest and a loose wrap skirt and broad belt.
- Fran was wearing long sleeves and a vest, which covered her muscles.
- He was dressed in a loose shirt, a vest, trousers and brown boots.
- He put on one each of the vests, jackets and sunglasses, removing his own jacket to do so.
- She quickly changed into her uniform, which consisted of a white blouse, a short gray pleated skirt and a vest, and a matching gray jacket.
- He was very recognisable by the exotic and flamboyant clothing he wore - a deep red vest without sleeves with a clashing orange shirt underneath.
- We found a vintage clothing store, and I bought a vest that I will no longer wear.
- It consisted of a plaid, pleated skirt, a white blouse, a sweater vest, and a blazer, as well as a tie, and knee highs.
- A traditional tuxedo is worn with a bow tie and a vest or cummerbund.

verb vɛstvɛst

1usually be vested inwith object Confer or bestow (power, authority, property, etc.) on someone.
executive power is vested in the President
Example sentencesExamples
- After deliberation, he and his council of officers decided to vest the supreme authority in a nominated assembly, initially for sixteen months.
- The Justice Department argued that the Constitution vests such authority exclusively in the president, and that it is not subject to judicial review.
- Article II vested the executive power of the federal government in a president and vice president, both elected for four-year terms by specially chosen electors.
- An Arab diplomat, going further, said Arab countries would oppose vesting any authority in the Governing Council.
- At the same time, this is not a top-down, bureaucratic management by fiat: authority here is vested not in any single individual, but rather in the deliberative group itself.
- To vest the powers of state in one man or council is to reduce the independence of both the sovereign and the subject.
- In English Common Law, ownership of land is still vested only in the Crown.
- Extensive powers were vested into the hands of the President who headed the executive branch of government.
- This is a much more precise and exacting standard than just suggesting that a person or body in whom a discretionary power is vested must exercise that power reasonably.
- He is the rightful representative of the people of Florida and he is the chief executive, in whom the power is vested to execute the law and protect the rights of citizens.
- Those political philosophies and religions that vest supreme authority in the individual are far more difficult to organize than those that can evoke some higher power.
- What it has actually done is very simple: it has taken the beaches from the control of local communities and local authorities and vested it in the Minister of Conservation.
- It might be thought that the easiest way to give shareholders control over management would be to vest the management powers in them.
- In each case the woman is confronting the society's power, which is vested and expressed in one or possibly two men.
- That Article exclusively vests the ‘judicial power of the United States’ in such courts.
- They apparently went back and forth between vesting the appointment power between the Executive or in the Senate.
- We say that power must be vested solely in the right of Parliament and the Government.
- The trustee company then moved to vest the property of the trust in the children.
- The Conservative party has always vested great authority in its leader and restricted participation in selection.
- The Framers vested control in copyrighted works in ‘authors,’ in the sense of individual creators - not industry or publishers or the government.
- But even they vested managerial control over land largely in male relatives.
Synonyms
entrust to, invest in, bestow on, confer on, grant to, give to
endow, lodge, lay, place
put in the hands of
1. 1.1usually be vested with Give (someone) the legal right to power, property, etc.
  the local planning authorities are vested with powers to regulate land use and development
  Example sentencesExamples
  During inauguration, the president is vested with the power and authority of the office.
  With such responsibility, council members have been vested with authority to do their job effectively.
  Instead, the tribunal was vested with essentially unlimited authority to establish the parameters for its existence and for the prosecution of cases before it.
  In Germany, France, and Switzerland, the public sector was vested with this authority.
  They have been vested with the authority to hand over the offenders to the police.
  The only un-democratic branch in all of this was judiciary, which was thus vested with no actual power.
  Because my theory is that individuals are vested with enormous powers that tend to threaten the state.
  Should this court come into existence, it will be vested with the power to try ‘serious violations of the law of war,’ whether committed during international or internal armed conflict.
  The civic bodies must be given the task of local distribution and could also be vested with the powers to award the local distribution contracts, provided there is a foolproof mechanism for quality control.
  Members of the clergy are vested with veto power over names of infants.
  That is, there are occasions when a body is vested with a power for one purpose but seeks to use this power for some other purpose.
  At every scale, organizations were vested with the power to prevent smaller scales from forming and thus distributing power.
  It decided on all political and economic matters and was vested with the fullest possible powers.
  There has to be a system like football and hockey where the umpire is vested with the authority to warn a player according to the nature of the offence.
  The Constitution vests the people with the right to assembly and demonstration.
  His strong sense that he alone is vested with the authority to steer the country's economy was also apparent.
  Although I have been vested with the power to decide whom I want to elect as my leader, there is no harm in getting other people's opinion; after all two heads are better than one!
  Those vested with governing power have a natural inbuilt reluctance to accept restrictions on the exercise of their authority.
  Once vested with the power to overrule precedent, he will.
  There will be a transformation in this country, and if this is to happen, ‘villagers should be vested with power’.
  The tribunals should be vested with summary powers.
2. 1.2vest inno object (of power, property, etc.) come into the possession of.
  the bankrupt's property vests in his trustee
  Example sentencesExamples
  This was achieved by 1876 and the property vested in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1891.
  What has caused such high levels of corruption is the very fact that there is too much power vested in the hands of the state.
  It was given to trustees and the property was vested in the Charity Commissioners for the benefit of Haxby people.
  There are some single judgments in the Federal Court which suggest that that is not property which vests in the official trustee in bankruptcy, so therefore it is not actually one of the actions over which he has jurisdiction.
  With so much power still vested in him, he can make a difference, if not to the outcome, certainly to the process.
  We have expressed the duty of the Council to exercise the statutory powers vested in it so as to minimise the risk of harm to such consumers.
  Now in bankruptcy the property of a bankrupt vests in his trustee upon the making of the sequestration order.
  Sovereignty, said Bodin, was that absolute and perpetual power vested in a commonwealth.
  Undoubtedly princes, peers and other great nobles of old stock resented the power thus vested in men whom they regarded as social inferiors.
  Thus, the power vested in Congress allowed it to operate with moderate control over the states.
  In short, what are the powers vested in India's national hockey coach?
  It relies on Section 71 of the B.I.A. that once an assignment in bankruptcy is made, all of the bankrupt's property vests in his or her Trustee.
  It is admitted that if a receiving order is made there is no property to vest in the trustee and therefore there is nothing to administer.
  It should not, however, seek to usurp the power vested in the elected government of the day.
  The dominance often leads to a usurpation of the political power officially vested in government.
  The social power vested in a brand, through its appeal to consumers, is held directly responsible for its economic power.
2no object (of a chorister or member of the clergy) put on vestments.
he approaches the altar to vest for Mass
Example sentencesExamples
- We discussed the service as I vested, then waited in the sacristy for the sound of feet on the chapel floor.
1. 2.1literary with object Dress (someone)
  the Speaker vested him with a rich purple robe
  Example sentencesExamples
  But Jesus is not an ordinary king; he is vested not in fine silks and jewels but in garments of humility and suffering.
  He was fully vested, with a blue brocade chasuble over his white alb.
  Now she was vested for the anointing; buskins, sandals and girdle put on, and over all a tabard of white sarsnet, the vestment called the colobium sindonis.

Origin

Late Middle English (as a verb): from Old French vestu 'clothed', past participle of vestir, from Latin vestire; the noun (early 17th century, denoting a loose outer garment) from French veste, via Italian from Latin vestis 'garment'.

invest from mid 16th century:
The root of invest is Latin vestis ‘clothes’, also the source of vest (Late Middle English), and which shares an Indo-European root with wear (Old English). Latin investire meant ‘to put clothes on someone’, and was the sense of invest when it entered English in the mid 16th century. Someone being formally installed in a job or office would once have been ceremonially dressed in special clothing, and this is behind the sense ‘to formally confer a rank or office on someone’. The main modern use of the word is financial—putting money into a commercial venture with the expectation of profit. This came into English under the influence of a related Italian word in the early 17th century, apparently through a comparison between putting money into various enterprises and dressing it in a variety of clothing.

Rhymes

abreast, arrest, attest, beau geste, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Brest, Bucharest, Budapest, celeste, chest, contest, crest, digest, divest, guest, hest, infest, ingest, jest, lest, Midwest, molest, nest, northwest, pest, prestressed, protest, quest, rest, self-addressed, self-confessed, self-possessed, southwest, suggest, test, Trieste, unaddressed, unexpressed, unimpressed, unpressed, unstressed, west, wrest, zest

Definition of vest in US English:

vest

nounvɛstvest

1Australian US A sleeveless, close-fitting waist-length garment worn over a shirt, typically having no collar and buttoning down the front.
businessmen wear three-piece pin-striped suits with vests and neckties
Example sentencesExamples
- She quickly changed into her uniform, which consisted of a white blouse, a short gray pleated skirt and a vest, and a matching gray jacket.
- He pulled a notepad from his vest pocket, and flipped it open.
- Instead of a stage and chairs, I found a bounty of discarded hats, sweaters, shirts, vests, pants, wigs, and costume apparel covering the floor and hanging on coat hooks.
- A traditional tuxedo is worn with a bow tie and a vest or cummerbund.
- After a couple of outfits, Sara decided on a sleeveless leather vest and a loose wrap skirt and broad belt.
- This pattern gives you two unique looks in one sporty vest or jacket.
- In order to stay cool, Harris recommends that workers wear an undershirt beneath the vest.
- Above the navy skirt, she wore a white collared, long-sleeved blouse and matching blue knit sweater vest.
- Dad's knitted vest will have to be finished next week.
- He put on one each of the vests, jackets and sunglasses, removing his own jacket to do so.
- It consisted of a plaid, pleated skirt, a white blouse, a sweater vest, and a blazer, as well as a tie, and knee highs.
- The only decent thing he wore was the sturdy red vest, almost a sleeveless jacket, with black embroidery at the neck and arm holes.
- We found a vintage clothing store, and I bought a vest that I will no longer wear.
- Men in urban areas wear a felt or fur-trimmed hat, a short vest with sleeves, trousers, and a robe.
- He was dressed in a loose shirt, a vest, trousers and brown boots.
- Altair reached into his vest pocket and pulled out a stained, frayed handkerchief.
- Fran was wearing long sleeves and a vest, which covered her muscles.
- He was very recognisable by the exotic and flamboyant clothing he wore - a deep red vest without sleeves with a clashing orange shirt underneath.
- Men typically wore trousers and a tailored shirt under a vest or coat.
- He settled on a conservative gray jacket with a darker vest beneath it.
2A garment worn on the upper part of the body for a particular purpose or activity.
a running vest
a bulletproof vest
Example sentencesExamples
- The vest has 23 pockets for all the gadgets turkey hunters manage to accumulate.
- On that trip, we could only carry our cameras and flak vests.
- If this isn't possible, add a light to your bike and don a safety vest.
- However, a person dressed in the reflective vest commonly worn by security guards was seen lying face down on the front steps.
- A cheaper, quicker fix is to use a slip-on rubber pad and/or a shooting vest with a thick shoulder pad.
- On the sidewalk before stop lights start turning red, three people in the public works wearing orange reflective vests push three prams stripped to the metal.
- The flak vests were a little worn but still had the protection needed.
- She spent the last few minutes before the race wearing an ice vest to keep her body temperature down.
- In stab vests and riot gear, police stormed a number of Ulverston homes looking for drugs yesterday in a series of high-profile raids.
- Some of the police were dressed in black fatigues; others were wearing suits underneath bullet-proof vests.
- The dozen pockets of his safari vest are filled with gear.
- It has not been much warmer in France than it was in Belgium and we started the first stage in leg warmers, thermal vests, gloves and hats.
- Although unisex vests are available in every police station in a variety of sizes, body armour is not currently personally issued to each officer.
- Walsh was briefly trapped in the cockpit, managed to inflate his life vest, and rocketed to the surface.
- With their Kevlar vests and M16 rifles they looked much like any other occupying force.
- Nike is providing pre-cool jackets, vests filled with 12 cooled gel packs that can be worn for an hour before competing, and uniforms with ventilation panels.
- Other companies, Weatherby for example, have recently introduced wool hunting jackets and vests.
- Some of the vests now have a collar and groin protector.
- Their coats, vests and jackets are made from unique breathable and waterproof Australian fabric.
- Break surface, simultaneously remove regulator from mouth and fully inflate vest.
3British An undershirt, typically one without sleeves.
Example sentencesExamples
- The appeal is now in its final week and priority should be given to the gift donation of vests, warm undergarments, toiletries and socks.
- He wore a beige shirt and trousers and a white vest under his shirt.
- His children, two young girls, are running in and out of the spray in vests and knickers.
- They go with everything, look good with a sun tan, can be used as vests under shirts if the weather turns cold and can be slipped on over a swimming costume if the sun gets too strong.
- Detectives have appealed for information about a male jogger wearing a blue vest and black tracksuit seen running in the area.
- Another wore Bermuda shorts, a vest and sunglasses, and rode a surfboard just a few streets away from Wall Street.
- Val changed into her dress with the discreet vest underneath.
- This week, many of the women are seemingly bra-less, or wearing strapless tops, vests, etc.
- He had short black hair and wore a black vest, dark jeans, and a long gold necklace with a pendant.
- The following items are needed: Warm socks, vests, underwear, toiletries Christmas cakes, boxes of biscuits, sweets, warm underclothing for men and warm blankets.
- I stripped off my dress and pulled on a pair of pyjama bottoms and a vest, before climbing into bed.
- The major contributions include vests, warm undergarments, warm socks and toiletries.
- Eight vests, six stretchsuits, two cardigans, and one shawl or all-in-one coat are the bare essentials.
- She wears a sparkly top, not a boyish vest, with her jeans.
- I wore identical stuff to the first audition - faded jeans and a black vest.
- She drifts on stage dressed in high-street chic: faded denim and a tracksuit top, which she slips off to reveal a pink camisole vest.
- The more knowledgeable spectators in the crowd were able to pick out each club runner by the colour of his vest, almost the athletic version of train-spotting.
- After he dropped the bomb, soldiers ordered him to take off his vest and jeans, to ensure he had no other weapons on him.
- Keep your outfit neutral but use colour in a top, vest or camisole or with a fabulous scarf or chiffon shawl.
- Either way, the revolution that is Secret Support will doubtless make life so much easier and is available in a range of vests, bodies and t-shirts in a variety of colours and fabrics.
1. 3.1 A woman's sleeveless top.
  she stepped out in a striped vest and skinny jeans with strappy black heels
  Kim looked chic in her pink jeans and white vest top
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then later in the episode, she showed up wearing a denim vest.
  At the entrance, the girls, who were wearing vest tops, were given T-shirts to cover their shoulders.
  She was spotted wearing a red floral vest top with some knee-length denim shorts.
  She also donned a brightly coloured bikini underneath her vest, which displayed her very slender figure.
  Pair the plaid skirt with knee high socks, boots and a sequinned vest.
  We love the idea of pairing a printed maxi skirt with a statement vest, then sprinkling in snazzy accessories for added interest.
  Teaming a checked shirt with a grey vest, she showed off her slim legs in a pair of form-fitting skinny jeans.
  The colour schemes are bright, with yellow and pink tie-dyes and vest tops matched with acid-washed denim.
  The women, dressed in skinny jeans and vest tops, swoop in and out.
  Not content with the attention from her show-stopping ear bling, the 25-year-old singer also wore an extremely sheer vest top.
  Throw on a fitted leather jacket or an army green cargo vest to complete your relaxed yet cool look.

verbvɛstvest

1usually be vested inwith object Confer or bestow (power, authority, property, etc.) on someone.
executive power is vested in the President
Example sentencesExamples
- In English Common Law, ownership of land is still vested only in the Crown.
- Those political philosophies and religions that vest supreme authority in the individual are far more difficult to organize than those that can evoke some higher power.
- But even they vested managerial control over land largely in male relatives.
- The Justice Department argued that the Constitution vests such authority exclusively in the president, and that it is not subject to judicial review.
- What it has actually done is very simple: it has taken the beaches from the control of local communities and local authorities and vested it in the Minister of Conservation.
- Article II vested the executive power of the federal government in a president and vice president, both elected for four-year terms by specially chosen electors.
- This is a much more precise and exacting standard than just suggesting that a person or body in whom a discretionary power is vested must exercise that power reasonably.
- He is the rightful representative of the people of Florida and he is the chief executive, in whom the power is vested to execute the law and protect the rights of citizens.
- After deliberation, he and his council of officers decided to vest the supreme authority in a nominated assembly, initially for sixteen months.
- An Arab diplomat, going further, said Arab countries would oppose vesting any authority in the Governing Council.
- They apparently went back and forth between vesting the appointment power between the Executive or in the Senate.
- It might be thought that the easiest way to give shareholders control over management would be to vest the management powers in them.
- The Framers vested control in copyrighted works in ‘authors,’ in the sense of individual creators - not industry or publishers or the government.
- We say that power must be vested solely in the right of Parliament and the Government.
- The Conservative party has always vested great authority in its leader and restricted participation in selection.
- That Article exclusively vests the ‘judicial power of the United States’ in such courts.
- In each case the woman is confronting the society's power, which is vested and expressed in one or possibly two men.
- At the same time, this is not a top-down, bureaucratic management by fiat: authority here is vested not in any single individual, but rather in the deliberative group itself.
- To vest the powers of state in one man or council is to reduce the independence of both the sovereign and the subject.
- Extensive powers were vested into the hands of the President who headed the executive branch of government.
- The trustee company then moved to vest the property of the trust in the children.
Synonyms
entrust to, invest in, bestow on, confer on, grant to, give to
1. 1.1usually be vested with Give (someone) the legal right to power, property, etc.
  he alone is vested with the authority to steer the country’s economy
  Example sentencesExamples
  Because my theory is that individuals are vested with enormous powers that tend to threaten the state.
  Instead, the tribunal was vested with essentially unlimited authority to establish the parameters for its existence and for the prosecution of cases before it.
  His strong sense that he alone is vested with the authority to steer the country's economy was also apparent.
  That is, there are occasions when a body is vested with a power for one purpose but seeks to use this power for some other purpose.
  The only un-democratic branch in all of this was judiciary, which was thus vested with no actual power.
  Members of the clergy are vested with veto power over names of infants.
  Once vested with the power to overrule precedent, he will.
  There has to be a system like football and hockey where the umpire is vested with the authority to warn a player according to the nature of the offence.
  There will be a transformation in this country, and if this is to happen, ‘villagers should be vested with power’.
  At every scale, organizations were vested with the power to prevent smaller scales from forming and thus distributing power.
  Should this court come into existence, it will be vested with the power to try ‘serious violations of the law of war,’ whether committed during international or internal armed conflict.
  It decided on all political and economic matters and was vested with the fullest possible powers.
  The Constitution vests the people with the right to assembly and demonstration.
  The civic bodies must be given the task of local distribution and could also be vested with the powers to award the local distribution contracts, provided there is a foolproof mechanism for quality control.
  With such responsibility, council members have been vested with authority to do their job effectively.
  Although I have been vested with the power to decide whom I want to elect as my leader, there is no harm in getting other people's opinion; after all two heads are better than one!
  In Germany, France, and Switzerland, the public sector was vested with this authority.
  During inauguration, the president is vested with the power and authority of the office.
  They have been vested with the authority to hand over the offenders to the police.
  The tribunals should be vested with summary powers.
  Those vested with governing power have a natural inbuilt reluctance to accept restrictions on the exercise of their authority.
2. 1.2vest inno object (of power, property, etc.) come into the possession of.
  the bankrupt's property vests in his trustee
  Example sentencesExamples
  It should not, however, seek to usurp the power vested in the elected government of the day.
  It relies on Section 71 of the B.I.A. that once an assignment in bankruptcy is made, all of the bankrupt's property vests in his or her Trustee.
  The social power vested in a brand, through its appeal to consumers, is held directly responsible for its economic power.
  Thus, the power vested in Congress allowed it to operate with moderate control over the states.
  In short, what are the powers vested in India's national hockey coach?
  There are some single judgments in the Federal Court which suggest that that is not property which vests in the official trustee in bankruptcy, so therefore it is not actually one of the actions over which he has jurisdiction.
  What has caused such high levels of corruption is the very fact that there is too much power vested in the hands of the state.
  The dominance often leads to a usurpation of the political power officially vested in government.
  It was given to trustees and the property was vested in the Charity Commissioners for the benefit of Haxby people.
  Sovereignty, said Bodin, was that absolute and perpetual power vested in a commonwealth.
  With so much power still vested in him, he can make a difference, if not to the outcome, certainly to the process.
  It is admitted that if a receiving order is made there is no property to vest in the trustee and therefore there is nothing to administer.
  Undoubtedly princes, peers and other great nobles of old stock resented the power thus vested in men whom they regarded as social inferiors.
  This was achieved by 1876 and the property vested in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1891.
  Now in bankruptcy the property of a bankrupt vests in his trustee upon the making of the sequestration order.
  We have expressed the duty of the Council to exercise the statutory powers vested in it so as to minimise the risk of harm to such consumers.
2no object (of a chorister or member of the clergy) put on vestments.
Example sentencesExamples
- We discussed the service as I vested, then waited in the sacristy for the sound of feet on the chapel floor.
1. 2.1literary with object Dress (someone)
  the Speaker vested him with a rich purple robe
  Example sentencesExamples
  But Jesus is not an ordinary king; he is vested not in fine silks and jewels but in garments of humility and suffering.
  He was fully vested, with a blue brocade chasuble over his white alb.
  Now she was vested for the anointing; buskins, sandals and girdle put on, and over all a tabard of white sarsnet, the vestment called the colobium sindonis.

Origin

Late Middle English (as a verb): from Old French vestu ‘clothed’, past participle of vestir, from Latin vestire; the noun (early 17th century, denoting a loose outer garment) from French veste, via Italian from Latin vestis ‘garment’.

单词	vest
释义	Definition of vest in English: vest noun vɛstvɛst 1British An undergarment worn on the upper part of the body, typically having no sleeves. Example sentencesExamples He wore a beige shirt and trousers and a white vest under his shirt. The major contributions include vests, warm undergarments, warm socks and toiletries. The appeal is now in its final week and priority should be given to the gift donation of vests, warm undergarments, toiletries and socks. I stripped off my dress and pulled on a pair of pyjama bottoms and a vest, before climbing into bed. Val changed into her dress with the discreet vest underneath. I wore identical stuff to the first audition - faded jeans and a black vest. Eight vests, six stretchsuits, two cardigans, and one shawl or all-in-one coat are the bare essentials. His children, two young girls, are running in and out of the spray in vests and knickers. This week, many of the women are seemingly bra-less, or wearing strapless tops, vests, etc. After he dropped the bomb, soldiers ordered him to take off his vest and jeans, to ensure he had no other weapons on him. Another wore Bermuda shorts, a vest and sunglasses, and rode a surfboard just a few streets away from Wall Street. He had short black hair and wore a black vest, dark jeans, and a long gold necklace with a pendant. The more knowledgeable spectators in the crowd were able to pick out each club runner by the colour of his vest, almost the athletic version of train-spotting. Detectives have appealed for information about a male jogger wearing a blue vest and black tracksuit seen running in the area. Either way, the revolution that is Secret Support will doubtless make life so much easier and is available in a range of vests, bodies and t-shirts in a variety of colours and fabrics. She drifts on stage dressed in high-street chic: faded denim and a tracksuit top, which she slips off to reveal a pink camisole vest. She wears a sparkly top, not a boyish vest, with her jeans. They go with everything, look good with a sun tan, can be used as vests under shirts if the weather turns cold and can be slipped on over a swimming costume if the sun gets too strong. Keep your outfit neutral but use colour in a top, vest or camisole or with a fabulous scarf or chiffon shawl. The following items are needed: Warm socks, vests, underwear, toiletries Christmas cakes, boxes of biscuits, sweets, warm underclothing for men and warm blankets. 1.1 A woman's sleeveless top. she stepped out in a striped vest and skinny jeans with strappy black heels Kim looked chic in her pink jeans and white vest top Example sentencesExamples The colour schemes are bright, with yellow and pink tie-dyes and vest tops matched with acid-washed denim. Not content with the attention from her show-stopping ear bling, the 25-year-old singer also wore an extremely sheer vest top. She was spotted wearing a red floral vest top with some knee-length denim shorts. Pair the plaid skirt with knee high socks, boots and a sequinned vest. She also donned a brightly coloured bikini underneath her vest, which displayed her very slender figure. Throw on a fitted leather jacket or an army green cargo vest to complete your relaxed yet cool look. The women, dressed in skinny jeans and vest tops, swoop in and out. At the entrance, the girls, who were wearing vest tops, were given T-shirts to cover their shoulders. Then later in the episode, she showed up wearing a denim vest. Teaming a checked shirt with a grey vest, she showed off her slim legs in a pair of form-fitting skinny jeans. We love the idea of pairing a printed maxi skirt with a statement vest, then sprinkling in snazzy accessories for added interest. 2A garment worn on the upper part of the body for a particular purpose. a running vest a bulletproof vest Example sentencesExamples With their Kevlar vests and M16 rifles they looked much like any other occupying force. In stab vests and riot gear, police stormed a number of Ulverston homes looking for drugs yesterday in a series of high-profile raids. If this isn't possible, add a light to your bike and don a safety vest. On that trip, we could only carry our cameras and flak vests. A cheaper, quicker fix is to use a slip-on rubber pad and/or a shooting vest with a thick shoulder pad. Some of the vests now have a collar and groin protector. The vest has 23 pockets for all the gadgets turkey hunters manage to accumulate. It has not been much warmer in France than it was in Belgium and we started the first stage in leg warmers, thermal vests, gloves and hats. Other companies, Weatherby for example, have recently introduced wool hunting jackets and vests. She spent the last few minutes before the race wearing an ice vest to keep her body temperature down. On the sidewalk before stop lights start turning red, three people in the public works wearing orange reflective vests push three prams stripped to the metal. The flak vests were a little worn but still had the protection needed. Their coats, vests and jackets are made from unique breathable and waterproof Australian fabric. Although unisex vests are available in every police station in a variety of sizes, body armour is not currently personally issued to each officer. Nike is providing pre-cool jackets, vests filled with 12 cooled gel packs that can be worn for an hour before competing, and uniforms with ventilation panels. Some of the police were dressed in black fatigues; others were wearing suits underneath bullet-proof vests. Break surface, simultaneously remove regulator from mouth and fully inflate vest. However, a person dressed in the reflective vest commonly worn by security guards was seen lying face down on the front steps. Walsh was briefly trapped in the cockpit, managed to inflate his life vest, and rocketed to the surface. The dozen pockets of his safari vest are filled with gear. 3Australian US A waistcoat or sleeveless jacket. Example sentencesExamples Above the navy skirt, she wore a white collared, long-sleeved blouse and matching blue knit sweater vest. Altair reached into his vest pocket and pulled out a stained, frayed handkerchief. In order to stay cool, Harris recommends that workers wear an undershirt beneath the vest. He settled on a conservative gray jacket with a darker vest beneath it. He pulled a notepad from his vest pocket, and flipped it open. Men typically wore trousers and a tailored shirt under a vest or coat. Instead of a stage and chairs, I found a bounty of discarded hats, sweaters, shirts, vests, pants, wigs, and costume apparel covering the floor and hanging on coat hooks. Dad's knitted vest will have to be finished next week. The only decent thing he wore was the sturdy red vest, almost a sleeveless jacket, with black embroidery at the neck and arm holes. Men in urban areas wear a felt or fur-trimmed hat, a short vest with sleeves, trousers, and a robe. This pattern gives you two unique looks in one sporty vest or jacket. After a couple of outfits, Sara decided on a sleeveless leather vest and a loose wrap skirt and broad belt. Fran was wearing long sleeves and a vest, which covered her muscles. He was dressed in a loose shirt, a vest, trousers and brown boots. He put on one each of the vests, jackets and sunglasses, removing his own jacket to do so. She quickly changed into her uniform, which consisted of a white blouse, a short gray pleated skirt and a vest, and a matching gray jacket. He was very recognisable by the exotic and flamboyant clothing he wore - a deep red vest without sleeves with a clashing orange shirt underneath. We found a vintage clothing store, and I bought a vest that I will no longer wear. It consisted of a plaid, pleated skirt, a white blouse, a sweater vest, and a blazer, as well as a tie, and knee highs. A traditional tuxedo is worn with a bow tie and a vest or cummerbund. verb vɛstvɛst 1usually be vested inwith object Confer or bestow (power, authority, property, etc.) on someone. executive power is vested in the President Example sentencesExamples After deliberation, he and his council of officers decided to vest the supreme authority in a nominated assembly, initially for sixteen months. The Justice Department argued that the Constitution vests such authority exclusively in the president, and that it is not subject to judicial review. Article II vested the executive power of the federal government in a president and vice president, both elected for four-year terms by specially chosen electors. An Arab diplomat, going further, said Arab countries would oppose vesting any authority in the Governing Council. At the same time, this is not a top-down, bureaucratic management by fiat: authority here is vested not in any single individual, but rather in the deliberative group itself. To vest the powers of state in one man or council is to reduce the independence of both the sovereign and the subject. In English Common Law, ownership of land is still vested only in the Crown. Extensive powers were vested into the hands of the President who headed the executive branch of government. This is a much more precise and exacting standard than just suggesting that a person or body in whom a discretionary power is vested must exercise that power reasonably. He is the rightful representative of the people of Florida and he is the chief executive, in whom the power is vested to execute the law and protect the rights of citizens. Those political philosophies and religions that vest supreme authority in the individual are far more difficult to organize than those that can evoke some higher power. What it has actually done is very simple: it has taken the beaches from the control of local communities and local authorities and vested it in the Minister of Conservation. It might be thought that the easiest way to give shareholders control over management would be to vest the management powers in them. In each case the woman is confronting the society's power, which is vested and expressed in one or possibly two men. That Article exclusively vests the ‘judicial power of the United States’ in such courts. They apparently went back and forth between vesting the appointment power between the Executive or in the Senate. We say that power must be vested solely in the right of Parliament and the Government. The trustee company then moved to vest the property of the trust in the children. The Conservative party has always vested great authority in its leader and restricted participation in selection. The Framers vested control in copyrighted works in ‘authors,’ in the sense of individual creators - not industry or publishers or the government. But even they vested managerial control over land largely in male relatives. Synonyms entrust to, invest in, bestow on, confer on, grant to, give to endow, lodge, lay, place put in the hands of 1.1usually be vested with Give (someone) the legal right to power, property, etc. the local planning authorities are vested with powers to regulate land use and development Example sentencesExamples During inauguration, the president is vested with the power and authority of the office. With such responsibility, council members have been vested with authority to do their job effectively. Instead, the tribunal was vested with essentially unlimited authority to establish the parameters for its existence and for the prosecution of cases before it. In Germany, France, and Switzerland, the public sector was vested with this authority. They have been vested with the authority to hand over the offenders to the police. The only un-democratic branch in all of this was judiciary, which was thus vested with no actual power. Because my theory is that individuals are vested with enormous powers that tend to threaten the state. Should this court come into existence, it will be vested with the power to try ‘serious violations of the law of war,’ whether committed during international or internal armed conflict. The civic bodies must be given the task of local distribution and could also be vested with the powers to award the local distribution contracts, provided there is a foolproof mechanism for quality control. Members of the clergy are vested with veto power over names of infants. That is, there are occasions when a body is vested with a power for one purpose but seeks to use this power for some other purpose. At every scale, organizations were vested with the power to prevent smaller scales from forming and thus distributing power. It decided on all political and economic matters and was vested with the fullest possible powers. There has to be a system like football and hockey where the umpire is vested with the authority to warn a player according to the nature of the offence. The Constitution vests the people with the right to assembly and demonstration. His strong sense that he alone is vested with the authority to steer the country's economy was also apparent. Although I have been vested with the power to decide whom I want to elect as my leader, there is no harm in getting other people's opinion; after all two heads are better than one! Those vested with governing power have a natural inbuilt reluctance to accept restrictions on the exercise of their authority. Once vested with the power to overrule precedent, he will. There will be a transformation in this country, and if this is to happen, ‘villagers should be vested with power’. The tribunals should be vested with summary powers. 1.2vest inno object (of power, property, etc.) come into the possession of. the bankrupt's property vests in his trustee Example sentencesExamples This was achieved by 1876 and the property vested in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1891. What has caused such high levels of corruption is the very fact that there is too much power vested in the hands of the state. It was given to trustees and the property was vested in the Charity Commissioners for the benefit of Haxby people. There are some single judgments in the Federal Court which suggest that that is not property which vests in the official trustee in bankruptcy, so therefore it is not actually one of the actions over which he has jurisdiction. With so much power still vested in him, he can make a difference, if not to the outcome, certainly to the process. We have expressed the duty of the Council to exercise the statutory powers vested in it so as to minimise the risk of harm to such consumers. Now in bankruptcy the property of a bankrupt vests in his trustee upon the making of the sequestration order. Sovereignty, said Bodin, was that absolute and perpetual power vested in a commonwealth. Undoubtedly princes, peers and other great nobles of old stock resented the power thus vested in men whom they regarded as social inferiors. Thus, the power vested in Congress allowed it to operate with moderate control over the states. In short, what are the powers vested in India's national hockey coach? It relies on Section 71 of the B.I.A. that once an assignment in bankruptcy is made, all of the bankrupt's property vests in his or her Trustee. It is admitted that if a receiving order is made there is no property to vest in the trustee and therefore there is nothing to administer. It should not, however, seek to usurp the power vested in the elected government of the day. The dominance often leads to a usurpation of the political power officially vested in government. The social power vested in a brand, through its appeal to consumers, is held directly responsible for its economic power. 2no object (of a chorister or member of the clergy) put on vestments. he approaches the altar to vest for Mass Example sentencesExamples We discussed the service as I vested, then waited in the sacristy for the sound of feet on the chapel floor. 2.1literary with object Dress (someone) the Speaker vested him with a rich purple robe Example sentencesExamples But Jesus is not an ordinary king; he is vested not in fine silks and jewels but in garments of humility and suffering. He was fully vested, with a blue brocade chasuble over his white alb. Now she was vested for the anointing; buskins, sandals and girdle put on, and over all a tabard of white sarsnet, the vestment called the colobium sindonis. Origin Late Middle English (as a verb): from Old French vestu 'clothed', past participle of vestir, from Latin vestire; the noun (early 17th century, denoting a loose outer garment) from French veste, via Italian from Latin vestis 'garment'. invest from mid 16th century: The root of invest is Latin vestis ‘clothes’, also the source of vest (Late Middle English), and which shares an Indo-European root with wear (Old English). Latin investire meant ‘to put clothes on someone’, and was the sense of invest when it entered English in the mid 16th century. Someone being formally installed in a job or office would once have been ceremonially dressed in special clothing, and this is behind the sense ‘to formally confer a rank or office on someone’. The main modern use of the word is financial—putting money into a commercial venture with the expectation of profit. This came into English under the influence of a related Italian word in the early 17th century, apparently through a comparison between putting money into various enterprises and dressing it in a variety of clothing. Rhymes abreast, arrest, attest, beau geste, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Brest, Bucharest, Budapest, celeste, chest, contest, crest, digest, divest, guest, hest, infest, ingest, jest, lest, Midwest, molest, nest, northwest, pest, prestressed, protest, quest, rest, self-addressed, self-confessed, self-possessed, southwest, suggest, test, Trieste, unaddressed, unexpressed, unimpressed, unpressed, unstressed, west, wrest, zest Definition of vest in US English: vest nounvɛstvest 1Australian US A sleeveless, close-fitting waist-length garment worn over a shirt, typically having no collar and buttoning down the front. businessmen wear three-piece pin-striped suits with vests and neckties Example sentencesExamples She quickly changed into her uniform, which consisted of a white blouse, a short gray pleated skirt and a vest, and a matching gray jacket. He pulled a notepad from his vest pocket, and flipped it open. Instead of a stage and chairs, I found a bounty of discarded hats, sweaters, shirts, vests, pants, wigs, and costume apparel covering the floor and hanging on coat hooks. A traditional tuxedo is worn with a bow tie and a vest or cummerbund. After a couple of outfits, Sara decided on a sleeveless leather vest and a loose wrap skirt and broad belt. This pattern gives you two unique looks in one sporty vest or jacket. In order to stay cool, Harris recommends that workers wear an undershirt beneath the vest. Above the navy skirt, she wore a white collared, long-sleeved blouse and matching blue knit sweater vest. Dad's knitted vest will have to be finished next week. He put on one each of the vests, jackets and sunglasses, removing his own jacket to do so. It consisted of a plaid, pleated skirt, a white blouse, a sweater vest, and a blazer, as well as a tie, and knee highs. The only decent thing he wore was the sturdy red vest, almost a sleeveless jacket, with black embroidery at the neck and arm holes. We found a vintage clothing store, and I bought a vest that I will no longer wear. Men in urban areas wear a felt or fur-trimmed hat, a short vest with sleeves, trousers, and a robe. He was dressed in a loose shirt, a vest, trousers and brown boots. Altair reached into his vest pocket and pulled out a stained, frayed handkerchief. Fran was wearing long sleeves and a vest, which covered her muscles. He was very recognisable by the exotic and flamboyant clothing he wore - a deep red vest without sleeves with a clashing orange shirt underneath. Men typically wore trousers and a tailored shirt under a vest or coat. He settled on a conservative gray jacket with a darker vest beneath it. 2A garment worn on the upper part of the body for a particular purpose or activity. a running vest a bulletproof vest Example sentencesExamples The vest has 23 pockets for all the gadgets turkey hunters manage to accumulate. On that trip, we could only carry our cameras and flak vests. If this isn't possible, add a light to your bike and don a safety vest. However, a person dressed in the reflective vest commonly worn by security guards was seen lying face down on the front steps. A cheaper, quicker fix is to use a slip-on rubber pad and/or a shooting vest with a thick shoulder pad. On the sidewalk before stop lights start turning red, three people in the public works wearing orange reflective vests push three prams stripped to the metal. The flak vests were a little worn but still had the protection needed. She spent the last few minutes before the race wearing an ice vest to keep her body temperature down. In stab vests and riot gear, police stormed a number of Ulverston homes looking for drugs yesterday in a series of high-profile raids. Some of the police were dressed in black fatigues; others were wearing suits underneath bullet-proof vests. The dozen pockets of his safari vest are filled with gear. It has not been much warmer in France than it was in Belgium and we started the first stage in leg warmers, thermal vests, gloves and hats. Although unisex vests are available in every police station in a variety of sizes, body armour is not currently personally issued to each officer. Walsh was briefly trapped in the cockpit, managed to inflate his life vest, and rocketed to the surface. With their Kevlar vests and M16 rifles they looked much like any other occupying force. Nike is providing pre-cool jackets, vests filled with 12 cooled gel packs that can be worn for an hour before competing, and uniforms with ventilation panels. Other companies, Weatherby for example, have recently introduced wool hunting jackets and vests. Some of the vests now have a collar and groin protector. Their coats, vests and jackets are made from unique breathable and waterproof Australian fabric. Break surface, simultaneously remove regulator from mouth and fully inflate vest. 3British An undershirt, typically one without sleeves. Example sentencesExamples The appeal is now in its final week and priority should be given to the gift donation of vests, warm undergarments, toiletries and socks. He wore a beige shirt and trousers and a white vest under his shirt. His children, two young girls, are running in and out of the spray in vests and knickers. They go with everything, look good with a sun tan, can be used as vests under shirts if the weather turns cold and can be slipped on over a swimming costume if the sun gets too strong. Detectives have appealed for information about a male jogger wearing a blue vest and black tracksuit seen running in the area. Another wore Bermuda shorts, a vest and sunglasses, and rode a surfboard just a few streets away from Wall Street. Val changed into her dress with the discreet vest underneath. This week, many of the women are seemingly bra-less, or wearing strapless tops, vests, etc. He had short black hair and wore a black vest, dark jeans, and a long gold necklace with a pendant. The following items are needed: Warm socks, vests, underwear, toiletries Christmas cakes, boxes of biscuits, sweets, warm underclothing for men and warm blankets. I stripped off my dress and pulled on a pair of pyjama bottoms and a vest, before climbing into bed. The major contributions include vests, warm undergarments, warm socks and toiletries. Eight vests, six stretchsuits, two cardigans, and one shawl or all-in-one coat are the bare essentials. She wears a sparkly top, not a boyish vest, with her jeans. I wore identical stuff to the first audition - faded jeans and a black vest. She drifts on stage dressed in high-street chic: faded denim and a tracksuit top, which she slips off to reveal a pink camisole vest. The more knowledgeable spectators in the crowd were able to pick out each club runner by the colour of his vest, almost the athletic version of train-spotting. After he dropped the bomb, soldiers ordered him to take off his vest and jeans, to ensure he had no other weapons on him. Keep your outfit neutral but use colour in a top, vest or camisole or with a fabulous scarf or chiffon shawl. Either way, the revolution that is Secret Support will doubtless make life so much easier and is available in a range of vests, bodies and t-shirts in a variety of colours and fabrics. 3.1 A woman's sleeveless top. she stepped out in a striped vest and skinny jeans with strappy black heels Kim looked chic in her pink jeans and white vest top Example sentencesExamples Then later in the episode, she showed up wearing a denim vest. At the entrance, the girls, who were wearing vest tops, were given T-shirts to cover their shoulders. She was spotted wearing a red floral vest top with some knee-length denim shorts. She also donned a brightly coloured bikini underneath her vest, which displayed her very slender figure. Pair the plaid skirt with knee high socks, boots and a sequinned vest. We love the idea of pairing a printed maxi skirt with a statement vest, then sprinkling in snazzy accessories for added interest. Teaming a checked shirt with a grey vest, she showed off her slim legs in a pair of form-fitting skinny jeans. The colour schemes are bright, with yellow and pink tie-dyes and vest tops matched with acid-washed denim. The women, dressed in skinny jeans and vest tops, swoop in and out. Not content with the attention from her show-stopping ear bling, the 25-year-old singer also wore an extremely sheer vest top. Throw on a fitted leather jacket or an army green cargo vest to complete your relaxed yet cool look. verbvɛstvest 1usually be vested inwith object Confer or bestow (power, authority, property, etc.) on someone. executive power is vested in the President Example sentencesExamples In English Common Law, ownership of land is still vested only in the Crown. Those political philosophies and religions that vest supreme authority in the individual are far more difficult to organize than those that can evoke some higher power. But even they vested managerial control over land largely in male relatives. The Justice Department argued that the Constitution vests such authority exclusively in the president, and that it is not subject to judicial review. What it has actually done is very simple: it has taken the beaches from the control of local communities and local authorities and vested it in the Minister of Conservation. Article II vested the executive power of the federal government in a president and vice president, both elected for four-year terms by specially chosen electors. This is a much more precise and exacting standard than just suggesting that a person or body in whom a discretionary power is vested must exercise that power reasonably. He is the rightful representative of the people of Florida and he is the chief executive, in whom the power is vested to execute the law and protect the rights of citizens. After deliberation, he and his council of officers decided to vest the supreme authority in a nominated assembly, initially for sixteen months. An Arab diplomat, going further, said Arab countries would oppose vesting any authority in the Governing Council. They apparently went back and forth between vesting the appointment power between the Executive or in the Senate. It might be thought that the easiest way to give shareholders control over management would be to vest the management powers in them. The Framers vested control in copyrighted works in ‘authors,’ in the sense of individual creators - not industry or publishers or the government. We say that power must be vested solely in the right of Parliament and the Government. The Conservative party has always vested great authority in its leader and restricted participation in selection. That Article exclusively vests the ‘judicial power of the United States’ in such courts. In each case the woman is confronting the society's power, which is vested and expressed in one or possibly two men. At the same time, this is not a top-down, bureaucratic management by fiat: authority here is vested not in any single individual, but rather in the deliberative group itself. To vest the powers of state in one man or council is to reduce the independence of both the sovereign and the subject. Extensive powers were vested into the hands of the President who headed the executive branch of government. The trustee company then moved to vest the property of the trust in the children. Synonyms entrust to, invest in, bestow on, confer on, grant to, give to 1.1usually be vested with Give (someone) the legal right to power, property, etc. he alone is vested with the authority to steer the country’s economy Example sentencesExamples Because my theory is that individuals are vested with enormous powers that tend to threaten the state. Instead, the tribunal was vested with essentially unlimited authority to establish the parameters for its existence and for the prosecution of cases before it. His strong sense that he alone is vested with the authority to steer the country's economy was also apparent. That is, there are occasions when a body is vested with a power for one purpose but seeks to use this power for some other purpose. The only un-democratic branch in all of this was judiciary, which was thus vested with no actual power. Members of the clergy are vested with veto power over names of infants. Once vested with the power to overrule precedent, he will. There has to be a system like football and hockey where the umpire is vested with the authority to warn a player according to the nature of the offence. There will be a transformation in this country, and if this is to happen, ‘villagers should be vested with power’. At every scale, organizations were vested with the power to prevent smaller scales from forming and thus distributing power. Should this court come into existence, it will be vested with the power to try ‘serious violations of the law of war,’ whether committed during international or internal armed conflict. It decided on all political and economic matters and was vested with the fullest possible powers. The Constitution vests the people with the right to assembly and demonstration. The civic bodies must be given the task of local distribution and could also be vested with the powers to award the local distribution contracts, provided there is a foolproof mechanism for quality control. With such responsibility, council members have been vested with authority to do their job effectively. Although I have been vested with the power to decide whom I want to elect as my leader, there is no harm in getting other people's opinion; after all two heads are better than one! In Germany, France, and Switzerland, the public sector was vested with this authority. During inauguration, the president is vested with the power and authority of the office. They have been vested with the authority to hand over the offenders to the police. The tribunals should be vested with summary powers. Those vested with governing power have a natural inbuilt reluctance to accept restrictions on the exercise of their authority. 1.2vest inno object (of power, property, etc.) come into the possession of. the bankrupt's property vests in his trustee Example sentencesExamples It should not, however, seek to usurp the power vested in the elected government of the day. It relies on Section 71 of the B.I.A. that once an assignment in bankruptcy is made, all of the bankrupt's property vests in his or her Trustee. The social power vested in a brand, through its appeal to consumers, is held directly responsible for its economic power. Thus, the power vested in Congress allowed it to operate with moderate control over the states. In short, what are the powers vested in India's national hockey coach? There are some single judgments in the Federal Court which suggest that that is not property which vests in the official trustee in bankruptcy, so therefore it is not actually one of the actions over which he has jurisdiction. What has caused such high levels of corruption is the very fact that there is too much power vested in the hands of the state. The dominance often leads to a usurpation of the political power officially vested in government. It was given to trustees and the property was vested in the Charity Commissioners for the benefit of Haxby people. Sovereignty, said Bodin, was that absolute and perpetual power vested in a commonwealth. With so much power still vested in him, he can make a difference, if not to the outcome, certainly to the process. It is admitted that if a receiving order is made there is no property to vest in the trustee and therefore there is nothing to administer. Undoubtedly princes, peers and other great nobles of old stock resented the power thus vested in men whom they regarded as social inferiors. This was achieved by 1876 and the property vested in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1891. Now in bankruptcy the property of a bankrupt vests in his trustee upon the making of the sequestration order. We have expressed the duty of the Council to exercise the statutory powers vested in it so as to minimise the risk of harm to such consumers. 2no object (of a chorister or member of the clergy) put on vestments. Example sentencesExamples We discussed the service as I vested, then waited in the sacristy for the sound of feet on the chapel floor. 2.1literary with object Dress (someone) the Speaker vested him with a rich purple robe Example sentencesExamples But Jesus is not an ordinary king; he is vested not in fine silks and jewels but in garments of humility and suffering. He was fully vested, with a blue brocade chasuble over his white alb. Now she was vested for the anointing; buskins, sandals and girdle put on, and over all a tabard of white sarsnet, the vestment called the colobium sindonis. Origin Late Middle English (as a verb): from Old French vestu ‘clothed’, past participle of vestir, from Latin vestire; the noun (early 17th century, denoting a loose outer garment) from French veste, via Italian from Latin vestis ‘garment’.
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