Idiom of the Day February 20, 2021

📚a vested interest

✍🏾Meaning

If you have a vested interest in something, you have a strong personal interest in it because you stand to gain from it.

❗️For example

🔸The Minister of Commerce is suspected of having vested interests in several companies that have won big government contracts recently.

🔸As both a shareholder in a publishing company and a published author, the newspaper's book reviewer is seen as having vested interests in certain publishers.

▫️Note

This idiom is mostly used in reference to people who use their power or influence unethically for their personal benefit.