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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 contingency
Familiarity information: VESTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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