Tra từ vest - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
life vest
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
bulletproof
▪ Women invented Liquid Paper, the Melitta coffee filter system, the Kevlar material used for bulletproof vests, and much more.
▪ The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.
▪ Had she been favored with a Sweet 16 gala, the Phoenix miss would have taken her bows wearing a bulletproof vest.
running
▪ A red cotton T-shirt or running vest is available at a nominal charge of £1.00 together with sponsorship forms.
▪ Sally has donated her official Barcelona running vest to the appeal, which has a goal of £60,000.
▪ Call John Girling on for your free running vest, car sticker, sweatband and sponsor form.
NOUN
life
▪ The outboard was gone, too, and the gas can and the orange life vest and the two fiberglass oars.
▪ Kathy pulled her arms inside the life vest.
▪ All wore life vests, officials said.
▪ She loaded the oars and gas can and life vest, then turned to close the boathouse doors.
▪ Kathy tucked her chin into the life vest, closed her eyes.
▪ Maybe she forgot to put on the life vest.
▪ State regulations require whitewater boaters to wear helmets and life vests.
▪ All three were wearing life vests and were unhurt.
pocket
▪ He took out a flask from his vest pocket and poured it into the glass.
▪ And then Hardin withdrew a two-credit coin from his vest pocket.
VERB
wear
▪ He would often be dressed in just a loose-fitting pair of shorts, but sometimes deigned to wear a vest as well.
▪ They wore leather vests and high-heeled sneakers, body suits and spandex, trying to get noticed.
▪ Tabitha was also wearing a white vest and Helena a shirt.
▪ The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.
▪ He was wearing only a sleeveless vest and a pair of short pants that reached almost to his bony knees.
▪ About one hundred state troopers wearing bulletproof vests kept the groups well separated after a fistfight broke out in the afternoon.
▪ Even in this weather he was wearing a sleeveless vest.
▪ Women wear gowns with trains of fabric trailing after them; men wear vests and jackets.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
vested interest
▪ Both the newspaper and the advertising agency have a vested interest in encouraging advertising.
▪ The committee should be independent of all vested interest.
▪ A person from outside the process area who has no vested interest in an issue makes the best facilitator.
▪ Enormous vested interests will need to be overcome to bring about such changes.
▪ Jerry has obvious vested interests to protect.
▪ Lots of people have a vested interest in the past.
▪ Or to create a rational design that goes against vested interests will likely not be implemented.
▪ They thus have a vested interest in their conservation.
vested interests
▪ Powerful vested interests are keeping American products out of that market.
▪ Even fewer are unattached to vested interests in the debate.
▪ In jails, at the hands of landlords, vested interests, police, during the Emergency.
▪ Jerry has obvious vested interests to protect.
▪ Others point to the rapid growth of military-industrial complexes with vested interests in international hostility.
▪ Probably the last of the true amateur captains, his decisions were not controlled by monetary or vested interests.
▪ That is partly a function of habit and experience, and partly the result of emerging vested interests.
▪ This is the strange case with the vested interests in production.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All his underclothes, his sports socks, his trousers and vests were smeared with shit.
▪ Du Pont used to allow local police officers to train on his estate, and equipped the department with expensive bulletproof vests.
▪ Her body was swathed in towels, except for the gap where her vest was pulled up.
▪ I was very glad of my thermal vest, three layers of woollies, and waterproof and windproof outer garments.
▪ Old opinions were shed, stuffy woolly shabby old liberal vests and comforters were left piled on the shore.
▪ The outboard was gone, too, and the gas can and the orange life vest and the two fiberglass oars.
▪ The writer was wearing a bulletproof vest and had brass knuckles and chemical repellent in other pockets.
▪ Women invented Liquid Paper, the Melitta coffee filter system, the Kevlar material used for bulletproof vests, and much more.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
power
▪ Firstly, the justification given by the model for vesting substantial managerial power in the hands of the directors will be investigated.
▪ We know that advertisers have a vested interest in their power to suspend our disbelief.
▪ On 8 August Franco signed a law vesting in himself total power over the administration of the state.
▪ Civil rights, equal opportunity and Great Society legislation in the 1960s also vested more power in the federal government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was more efficient because decision making was vested in the director, whom I will call Faustino Mata.

vest

I. vest¹ /vest/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1600-1700; Language : French; Origin : veste, from Latin vestis 'piece of clothing']
1. British English a piece of underwear without sleevesthat you wear on the top half of your body SYN undershirt American English

2. a piece of special clothing without sleevesthat you wear over your clothes to protect your body:
　 ▪ a bulletproof vest

3. American English a piece of clothing without sleevesand with buttons down the front that you wear as part of a suit SYN waistcoat British English

4. a sweater without sleeves

II. vest² verb law
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Old French; Origin : vestir 'to clothe, invest', from Latin vestire 'to clothe', from vestis; ⇨ vest¹]
vest something in somebody phrasal verb
to give someone the official right to do or own something:
　 ▪ Copyright is vested in the author for 50 years.