vest: signification et définitions

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.

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

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

Chiefly British An undershirt.

Archaic Clothing; raiment.

Obsolete An ecclesiastical vestment.

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.

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.

To clothe or robe, as in ecclesiastical vestments.

To become legally vested.

To dress oneself, especially in ecclesiastical vestments.