Usually means: Personal stakes influencing decision outcomes.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word vested interests:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. vested interests: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vested interests: Merriam-Webster
  3. vested interests: Collins English Dictionary
  4. vested interests: Vocabulary.com
  5. vested interests: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. vested interests: Wiktionary
  7. vested interests: Dictionary.com
  8. Vested interests: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. vested interests: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. vested interests: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. vested interests: Legal dictionary
  3. vested interests: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vested interests: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vested interests: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vested interests: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vested interest)

noun:  (law) An indefeasible right or title, distinguished from a contingent interest, which could be defeated (i.e. cease) if a certain event occurred.
noun:  A fixed right granted to an employee, especially under a pension plan.
noun:  A stake, often financial, in a particular outcome.
noun:  (in the plural) 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.
noun:  An exceptionally strong interest in protecting or promoting something to one's own advantage.
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