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VESTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vested mean? 

VESTED (adjective)
  The adjective VESTED has 1 sense:

1. fixed and absolute and without contingencyplay

  Familiarity information: VESTED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VESTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fixed and absolute and without contingency

Context example:

a vested right

Similar:

unconditional; unconditioned (not conditional)


 Context examples 


Your fortune is vested in the English funds; Briggs has the will and the necessary documents.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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