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vested interests

English

Noun

vested interests

  1. plural of vested interest
  2. those groups that seek to control an existing system or activity from which they derive benefit

Etymology

Popularized in sociology by Thorstein Veblen, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, 1919. From legal notion of a vested (‘secured, permanent’) interest.

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