Overview of verb vest

The verb vest has 5 senses

• invest, vest, enthrone -- (provide with power and authority; "They vested the council with special rights")


• vest -- (place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons; "She vested her vast fortune in her two sons")


• vest -- (become legally vested; "The property vests in the trustees")


• vest -- (clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments)


• vest, robe -- (clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes)

Overview of adj vested

The adj vested has 1 sense

• vested -- (fixed and absolute and without contingency; "a vested right")