vested
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He started as a contractor for $28 an hour, then was hired full time and given an equity stake valued at $10,000 that vested over five years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Musk controls more than 700 million shares of Tesla stock, including vested options from his 2018 pay award, worth some $300 billion.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
And the fact it came so late in a tense, high-stakes game made the wait near unbearable for those with a vested interest.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
During the past two decades, SpaceX has hired thousands of staff and granted them boatloads of restricted stock units, incentive stock options and nonqualified stock options that have vested over time.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
Then he puts a finger to my moonstone badge and says, “By the power vested in me as a training agent, I promote you, Amari Peters, to Junior Agent.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
Vocabulary lists containing vested
Vocabulary from the Constitution of the United States
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