vested interest
短语n. 特权阶级, 既得权利
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释义与例句
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An indefeasible right or title, distinguished from a contingent interest, which could be defeated (i.e. cease) if a certain event occurred.
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A fixed right granted to an employee, especially under a pension plan.
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A stake, often financial, in a particular outcome.
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A group of people or organizations with such a stake, especially those that seek to control an existing system or activity from which they derive benefit.
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An exceptionally strong interest in protecting or promoting something to one's own advantage.
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Popularized in sociology by Thorstein Veblen, The Vested Interests and the Common Man (1919). But used earlier, e.g. by Winston Churchill: * 1899, Winston Churchill, The River War, an Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, page 15: The name of the General was a sufficient guarantee that the slave trade was being earnestly attacked. The Khedive would gladly have stopped at the guarantee, and satisfied the world without disturbing 'vested interests.' But...
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