Invest vs. Vest — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Invest and Vest
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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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