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Invest vs. Vest — What's the Difference?

Invest vs. Vest — What's the Difference?

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Invest

To commit (money or capital) in order to gain a financial return
Invested their savings in stocks and bonds.

Vest

A sleeveless garment, often having buttons down the front, worn usually over a shirt or blouse and sometimes as part of a three-piece suit.

Invest

To spend or devote for future advantage or benefit
Invested much time and energy in getting a good education.

Vest

A waist-length, sleeveless garment worn for protection
A warm down vest.
A bulletproof vest.

Invest

To devote morally or psychologically, as to a purpose; commit
"Men of our generation are invested in what they do, women in what we are" (Shana Alexander).
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Vest

A fabric trim worn to fill in the neckline of a woman's garment; a vestee.

Invest

To endow with authority or power
The Constitution invests Congress with the power to make laws.

Vest

Chiefly British An undershirt.

Invest

To install in office with ceremony
Invest a new emperor.

Vest

(Obsolete) An ecclesiastical vestment.

Invest

To provide with an enveloping or pervasive quality
"A charm invests a face / Imperfectly beheld" (Emily Dickinson).

Vest

To place (authority, property, or rights, for example) in the control of a person or group, especially to give someone an immediate right to present or future possession or enjoyment of (an estate, for example). Used with in
Vested his estate in his daughter.

Invest

To clothe; adorn.

Vest

To invest or endow (a person or group) with something, such as power or rights. Used with with
Vested the council with broad powers.
Vests its employees with full pension rights after five years of service.

Invest

To cover completely; envelop.

Vest

To clothe or robe, as in ecclesiastical vestments.

Invest

To surround with troops or ships; besiege.

Vest

To become legally vested
Stock options that vest after the second year of employment.

Invest

To make investments or an investment
Invest in real estate.

Vest

To dress oneself, especially in ecclesiastical vestments.

Invest

To purchase with the expectation of benefit
We decided to invest in a new car.

Vest

(North America) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.

Invest

To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.

Vest

(British) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.

Invest

To clothe or wrap (with garments).

Vest

A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.

Invest

To put on (clothing).

Vest

Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.

Invest

To envelop, wrap, cover.

Vest

A vestment.

Invest

To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.

Vest

Clothing generally; array; garb.

Invest

To ceremonially install someone in some office.

Vest

A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.

Invest

To formally give (someone) some power or authority.

Vest

(chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.

Invest

To formally give (power or authority).

Vest

To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
To vest a court with power to try cases of life and death

Invest

To surround, accompany, or attend.

Vest

To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.

Invest

To lay siege to.
To invest a town

Vest

(legal) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
To vest a person with an estate
An estate is vested in possession

Invest

(intransitive) To make investments.

Vest

(of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.
Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.

Invest

(metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).

Vest

To become vested, to become permanent.
My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.

Invest

(intransitive) To cause to be involved in; to cause to form strong attachments to.

Vest

(obsolete) To invest; to put.
To vest money in goods, land, or houses

Invest

(meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

Vest

An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
In state attended by her maiden train,Who bore the vests that holy rites require.

Invest

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; - opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

Vest

Any outer covering; array; garb.
Not seldom clothed in radiant vestDeceitfully goes forth the morn.

Invest

To put on.
Can not find one this girdle to invest.

Vest

Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.

Invest

To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate.
I do invest you jointly with my power.

Vest

To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
With ether vested, and a purple sky.

Invest

To surround, accompany, or attend.
Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt.

Vest

To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; - followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.
Had I been vested with the monarch's power.

Invest

To confer; to give.
It investeth a right of government.

Vest

To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; - with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him.

Invest

To inclose; to surround or hem in with troops, so as to intercept reinforcements of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

Vest

To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.

Invest

To lay out (money or capital) in business with the view of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock.

Vest

To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.

Invest

To expend (time, money, or other resources) with a view to obtaining some benefit of value in excess of that expended, or to achieve a useful pupose; as, to invest a lot of time in teaching one's children.

Vest

To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; - followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.

Invest

To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; - usually followed by in.

Vest

A man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat

Invest

Make an investment;
Put money into bonds

Vest

A collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body

Invest

Give qualities or abilities to

Vest

Provide with power and authority;
They vested the council with special rights

Invest

Furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

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

Invest

Provide with power and authority;
They vested the council with special rights

Vest

Become legally vested;
The property vests in the trustees

Invest

Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position;
There was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy

Vest

Clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments

Vest

Clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes

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