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- noun Plural form of
vesting .
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Examples
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Thomas Ryan received total 2010 compensation of $29.2 million for the last year of a dozen-year stint at the helm of CVS Caremark Corp., and another $50.4 million from stock-award vestings and the exercise of stock options.
Ex-CVS CEO Nets 2010 Pay, Other Awards Of $124 Million Maxwell Murphy 2011
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Merino -- A thin woolen fabric made of the fine wool of the marion sheep, generally used for women's and children's wear, vestings, and underclothing.
Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson
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The goods are used for such purposes as ladies 'tailor-made suits, vestings, shirt fronts, cravats, bedspreads, and the like.
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Economical too, especially the present popular mercerised waistings and vestings that are fast invading the realm of silks.
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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The stock includes the latest styles in woolens, cassimeres, checks, stripes, fancy vestings etc., and from these are made to order, the very best of custom made garments in style after the latest New York and London fashion plates.
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That series of vestings was secured through deeds signed according to the Petroleum Development Act. As the founding chairman of Petronas I signed these deeds with each chief minister and with the federal government.
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Thus, a loan officer compensated in long-term stock vestings in his or her bank for reaching performance levels has a completely different set of interests than an individual mortgage broker who gets paid in YSP for each loan she writes.
MaxedOutMama 2008
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a specimen of the variety of articles produced in one factory, take the following list, exhibited in the Crystal Palace by a Huddersfield manufacturer: -- "Summer shawls; summer coatings; winter woollen shawls; vestings; cloakings; table covers; patent woollen cloth for gloves; do. alpaca do.; do. rabbits 'down do.; trowserings; stockingnett do."
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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