How to Use vesting in a Sentence

vesting

noun
  • The stock awards were new hire equity awards that represent four years of award vesting.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2025
  • Each have their own set of rules and vesting schedules and each differ in how directly they're tied to performance.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The problem was that the basics — stock, financing, vesting, legal etc.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
  • Among its features, the new space will contain two confessional rooms, a working sacristy and a vesting room.
    — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 26 Apr. 2026
  • At retirement, this kind of compensation usually gets cashed out or keeps vesting.
    — Matt Townsend and Anders Melin, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In taking a long vesting period, the cofounders signaled the intent to slowly grow a mission with long-term impact.
    — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The sale of the company triggered the vesting of most restricted shares and stock options held by executives.
    — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • CenterPoint said the vesting of the stock is a benefit Prochazka would not get apart from the agreement.
    — L.m. Sixel, Houston Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Snap employees would need to report the stock’s vesting value as income for the purposes of the internal revenue code.
    — Tatyana Shumsky, WSJ, 10 May 2017
  • As for restricted stock units, job termination stops the vesting of RSUs.
    — Bruce Brumberg, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The industry standard for equity vesting is 12 months.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But in Tillerson’s case, the trustee will disburse funds to him on a schedule that mirrors the company’s long-horizon vesting schedule.
    — Bess Levin, The Hive, 11 Jan. 2017
  • The firm prefers that companies dole out tokens over time, mimicking vesting periods in equity deals for startups.
    — Fortune, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The contract reportedly includes a third-year vesting option worth $8 million.
    — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Most large-cap companies have double-trigger vesting, meaning there needs to be both a change in control of the company and that the executive loses their job.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • June will mark the four-year anniversary of Waze’s acquisition, and another stock-vesting payout, a time when employees tend to leave in droves.
    — Adam Satariano, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2017
  • That includes potential bonus payouts and accelerated vesting of company stock, per the sources.
    — Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Much of that gain came from executives cashing in stock grants awarded in prior years, including the vesting of restricted shares or the exercise of stock options.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2019
  • Hopin says that staff involved in the cuts would get three months of compensation and benefits, share vesting options would be relaxed, and they would be allowed to keep company laptops.
    — Iain Martin, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • The lion’s share of Sayer’s compensation, about 88 percent, came from the vesting of restricted stock.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The purpose of such multiyear vesting periods is generally to give executives an incentive to think in the long-term and to stay at the company.
    — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 6 May 2020
  • There’s a $20 million vesting option for 2031 based on him playing in at least 100 games during any four seasons of the deal.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • As anyone who has lived through an Internet acquisition knows, getting employees to stay through their vesting period when the stock is below their strike price isn’t easy.
    — Brad King, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2000
  • Agrawal and Segal get the accelerated vesting of all of their shares while Gadde gets accelerated vesting of only half of her shares.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
  • In 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The vesting of some power in some institution does not necessarily mean that some other institution may not exercise that power.
    — Cass Sunstein, Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026
  • And Iovine denied the rumor, particularly that his departure would be motivated by some of his stock vesting in August.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2018
  • In 1934, a German plebiscite approved vesting sole executive power in Adolf Hitler.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The actual value of those awards will depend on the future performance of People’s United shares and the timing of option exercises and stock vesting.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • In February the bank paid $900m for Solium, a firm that manages share-vesting programmes at technology companies.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'vesting.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: