Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to vest
Participle: vested
Gerund: vesting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | vest |
| you | vest |
| he;she;it | vests |
| we | vest |
| you | vest |
| they | vest |
Perfect
| I | have vested |
| you | have vested |
| he;she;it | has vested |
| we | have vested |
| you | have vested |
| they | have vested |
Past
| I | vested |
| you | vested |
| he;she;it | vested |
| we | vested |
| you | vested |
| they | vested |
Pluperfect
| I | had vested |
| you | had vested |
| he;she;it | had vested |
| we | had vested |
| you | had vested |
| they | had vested |
Future
| I | will vest |
| you | will vest |
| he;she;it | will vest |
| we | will vest |
| you | will vest |
| they | will vest |
Future Perfect
| I | will have vested |
| you | will have vested |
| he;she;it | will have vested |
| we | will have vested |
| you | will have vested |
| they | will have vested |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | vest |
| you | vest |
| he;she;it | vest |
| we | vest |
| you | vest |
| they | vest |
Perfect
| I | have vested |
| you | have vested |
| he;she;it | have vested |
| we | have vested |
| you | have vested |
| they | have vested |
Imperfect
| I | vested |
| you | vested |
| he;she;it | vested |
| we | vested |
| you | vested |
| they | vested |
Pluperfect
| I | had vested |
| you | had vested |
| he;she;it | had vested |
| we | had vested |
| you | had vested |
| they | had vested |
Conditional
Present
| I | would vest |
| you | would vest |
| he;she;it | would vest |
| we | would vest |
| you | would vest |
| they | would vest |
Perfect
| I | would have vested |
| you | would have vested |
| he;she;it | would have vested |
| we | would have vested |
| you | would have vested |
| they | would have vested |
Imperative
| you | vest |
| we | Let's vest |
| you | vest |
Verbs conjugated like 'vest'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'vest'
best,
jest,
lest,
nest,
rest,
test,
vent,
vet,
west,
zest,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1425, "to put in possession of a person," from M.Fr.
vestir, from M.L.
vestire "to put into possession, to invest," from L.
vestire "to clothe," related to
vestis "garment, clothing," from PIE
*wes- "to clothe" (see wear).
Vested "established, secured, settled" is attested from 1766.
2. Derived from 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”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra) and Spanish vestir. See: English '
wear', Spanish '
vestir'.
Verbs referencing "vest"
English
wear, Spanish
vestir.
Sample Sentences
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Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. [1673, John Milton, Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint:]
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With ether vested, and a purple sky. [1697, John Dryden, Aeneid:]
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to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
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Had thy poor breast receiv’d an equal pain; / Had I been vested with the monarch’s power; / Thou must have sigh’d, unlucky youth, in vain; / Nor from my bounty hadst thou found a cure. [c. 1718, Matthew Prior, To Mr. Howard - An Ode:]
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The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
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, Book I
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Empire and dominion […] was vested in him.
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to vest a person with an estate
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an estate is vested in possession
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For the right of the crown vests[…]upon his heir. [1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:]
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Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.
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My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.
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If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest, you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well. [2005, Kaye A. Thomas, Consider Your Options, page 104:]
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2007, Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC
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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.
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They were, they said tipsily, essentially being paid to do nothing while earning out — or “vesting” — their stock grants. “Rest and vest,” the techies said, in between sips of beer. [2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025:]
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to vest money in goods, land, or houses