Usually means: Sleeveless garment worn over shirt.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. vest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vest: Merriam-Webster
  3. vest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vest: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vest: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vest, vest: Wordnik
  8. vest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Vest, vest: Wiktionary
  10. vest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vest: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vest: Dictionary.com
  14. vest (n.), vest (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. vest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Vest, VEST, Vest (development region), Vest (disambiguation), Vest (newspaper), Vest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Vest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. vest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. vest: Rhymezone
  20. vest, vest (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. vest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. VEST: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Vest: Britih-American Dictionary
  24. Vest: American-Britih Dictionary
  25. vest: FreeDictionary.org
  26. vest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. vest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. vest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vest-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. vest: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. vest: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Vest: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. VEST (cipher), vest: Legal dictionary
  8. VEST (cipher), vest: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vest: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. VEST: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. vest: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. vest: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. vest: Urban Dictionary

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

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