vested interests

English

Etymology

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

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
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