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noun
An indefeasible right or title, distinguished from a contingent interest, which could be defeated (i.e. cease) if a certain event occurred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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noun
A fixed right granted to an employee, especially under a pension plan.
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noun
A stake, often financial, in a particular outcome.
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noun
A group of people or organizations with such a stake, especially those that seek to control an existing system or activity from which they derive benefit.
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Usage: in-plural
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noun
An exceptionally strong interest in protecting or promoting something to one's own advantage.
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Synonyms: dog in the hunt
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noun
groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: interest, interest group
Narrower terms: military-industrial complex
noun
(law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: interest, stake
History
Popularized in sociology by Thorstein Veblen, The Vested Interests and the Common Man (1919). But used earlier, e.g. by Winston Churchill: * 1899, Winston Churchill, The River War, an Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, page 15: The name of the General was a sufficient guarantee that the slave trade was being earnestly attacked. The Khedive would gladly have stopped at the guarantee, and satisfied the world without disturbing 'vested interests.' But...
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