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unvested

unvested adjective: not vested: not free of contingencies. Also the simple past and past participle of unvest.

Adjective

unvested (not comparable)

  1. Not vested: not free of contingencies
    • Including unvested stock options, which increase the value of a deal, the companies put the transaction at $4.1 billion.2007 May 8, The Associated Press, “Merger Activity Helps Large Companies Close Higher”, in New York Times

Also used as

unvested is also the simple past and past participle of unvest.

Origin of unvested

From un- + vested.

Questions about unvested

What does unvested mean?
Unvested means not vested: not free of contingencies.
What part of speech is unvested?
Unvested is an adjective.

Words near unvested in the dictionary

  1. unvesseling
  2. unvesselled
  3. unvesselling
  4. unvessels
  5. unvest
  6. unvested
  7. unvestibuled
  8. unvesting
  9. unvests
  10. unvetoed
  11. unvettable

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