Definition of "vested interest" []

• Law A right or title, as to present or future possession of an estate, that can be conveyed to another. (noun)
• A fixed right granted to an employee under a pension plan. (noun)
• A special interest in protecting or promoting that which is to one's own personal advantage. (noun)
• Those groups that seek to maintain or control an existing system or activity from which they derive private benefit. (noun)

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• ""Skag, I'm the only person in the world right now with a vested interest in you surviving and getting out of here," Kurtz said softly."
• "My experience of permanents — not here, but when I was in Welsea — is that they get a wrong sort of vested interest in the place."
• "Remember that a HAD is a party with a vested interest behind the information or advice they give us."