If you have a vested interest in something, you have a personal stake in its success. You have a vested interest in your science project if your invention works, you could be rich and famous.
Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.
Adjective S.
fixed and absolute and without contingency; "a vested right"
imp. & p. p.
of Vest
a.
Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.
a.
Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as,
vested rights; vested interests.
Vested
Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.
Usage Examples
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
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Other Usage ExamplesUp against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
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