Usually means: Clothing layer without sleeves, pockets.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. vests: Merriam-Webster
  2. vests: Collins English Dictionary
  3. vests: Vocabulary.com
  4. Vest's, Vests, vests: Wordnik
  5. vests: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Vests, vests: Wiktionary
  7. vests: Dictionary.com
  8. vests: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. vests: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vests: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Vest)

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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