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n. 1 (vested interest English) 2 those groups that seek to control an existing system or activity from which they derive benefit
Usage examples of "vested interests".
Too many vested interests would scream at the thought of disruption.
The lack of any sort of close legislative oversight only made those temptations stronger, and by now the agency was in bed with powerful vested interests, using its power and authority to create “.
Business is good in Peru -- it is the only South American country without a balance of payments deficit -- and the vested interests want to keep it that way.
Politicians with vested interests in keeping you poor and helpless.
And William's policies aren't exactly aimed at making him popular with the vested interests who make this city the cesspool it is.
There were strict rules of order and precedence, and all questions had to be submitted well in advance, and only the truly cynical would point out how easy it would be for certain vested interests to decide who got to be heard, and who wouldn't.
The way toward truth that was to be unique in the human experience, a model of impartiality and integrity, turns out to be as open to the serving of vested interests and as subject to all the familiar human propensities toward self-delusion and wilful deception.
I have no vested interests, no social connections, no purchased respectability.
I suspect many Citizens will skip it, just as shareholders have historically ignored their vested interests, but I can’.