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# vest

«vest» in Mova's school dictionary: **In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a piece of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a vest, vests)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a piece of underwear without sleeves worn under a shirt (in the USA called an "undershirt" or "tank top"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/#m1)

2) In the USA and Canada, a sleeveless jacket worn over a shirt (in the UK called a "waistcoat"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/#m2)

3) A special sleeveless top that protects you or makes you easy to see: "a life vest", "a high-visibility vest". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety, children wear high-visibility (hi-vis) vests on school trips near roads, and life vests on boats. In PE, coloured vests (bibs) show which team you are on. Phrases: life vest, hi-vis vest, bulletproof vest, string vest.

### examples

- Put on a vest; it is cold today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/#x1)
- Everyone wears a life vest in the canoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/#x2)
- We wore bright yellow vests on the school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/#x3)
- He wore a smart vest over his shirt at the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/#x4)
- The red team wear red vests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/#x5)
- Police officers wear protective vests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/#x6)
- He then went to the dead magician, took the lamp out of his vest, and bade the genie carry the palace and all in it back to China. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/#x7)

### note

Countable: a vest, vests. The meaning depends on the country: British "vest" is underwear, American "vest" is a "waistcoat". Safety: always wear a life vest on a boat, and a hi-vis vest when walking near traffic in the dark.

### In the corpora

- [A vest has no sleeves at all, so vests add nothing to the number of sleeves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/214-sleeves-in-the-wash/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.