vests

• accords
• accredits
• advances
• affirms
• allocates
• allows
• appoints
• appropriates
• approves
• assigns
• authorizes
• awards
• bequeaths
• bestows
• certifies
• charters
• clears
• commends
• commissions
• commits
• confers
• confides
• confirms
• consigns
• contributes
• credentials
• delegates
• delivers
• designates
• dispenses
• disperses
• distributes
• divides
• donates
• dubs
• empowers
• enables
• endorses
• enfranchises
• entitles
• entrusts
• extends
• fixes
• furnishes
• gives
• gives over
• grants
• hands
• hands down
• hands in
• hands on
• hands over
• inaugurates
• indorses
• inducts
• initiates
• installs
• instates
• intrusts
• invests
• leaves
• lends
• lets
• licences
• licenses
• loans
• names
• offers
• okays
• oks
• passes
• permits
• presents
• privileges
• proffers
• provides
• qualifies
• recommends
• recommits
• redelivers
• releases
• relinquishes
• reposes
• retransfers
• retransmits
• sanctions
• sets
• shows
• submits
• supplies
• surrenders
• swears in
• transfers
• transmits
• trusts
• turns in
• turns over
• validates
• warrants
• wills
• yields

• aborts
• abrogates
• accepts
• annuls
• bans
• bars
• blocks
• calls
• calls off
• constrains
• denies
• detains
• disallows
• disbars
• discourages
• disenfranchises
• disfranchises
• disqualifies
• drops
• enjoins
• excludes
• forbids
• hinders
• holds
• holds back
• impedes
• inhibits
• interdicts
• invalidates
• keeps
• nullifies
• obstructs
• occupies
• outlaws
• owns
• possesses
• prevents
• prohibits
• proscribes
• recalls
• recants
• receives
• repeals
• rescinds
• reserves
• retains
• retracts
• revokes
• shuts out
• stops
• takes
• takes back
• takes in
• takes over
• vetoes
• voids
• withdraws
• withholds
• writes off

• noun
  1. A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
  2. A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
  3. A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
  4. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
  5. Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
  6. A vestment.
  7. Clothing generally; array; garb.
• verb
  1. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
  2. To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
  3. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
  4. To invest; to put.
  5. To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
  6. (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.
  7. (financial) To become vested, to become permanent.

• The security team wore bulletproof vests for protection.
• He prefers to wear formal vests with his suits.
• The store sells stylish vests for the winter season.
• Workers were required to wear reflective vests on the construction site.
• The tailor designed custom vests for the wedding party.

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