verb
- Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- Give qualities or abilities to.
- Furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors.
- Provide with power and authority.
- usage: "They vested the council with special rights"
- Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position.
- usage: "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
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