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Vested interest   /vˈɛstəd ˈɪntrəst/   Listen
Vested interest

noun
1.
(law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another.
2.
Groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit.





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"Vested interest" Quotes from Famous Books



... once into Admiral Darling's employment was to obtain a vested interest; so kind was his nature and so forgiving, especially when he had scolded anybody. Mr. Swipes, the head gardener for so many years, held an estate of freehold in the garden—although he had no head, and would never be a gardener, till the hanging gardens of Babylon should be hung ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore


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