How to Use vesting in a Sentence

vesting

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  • 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
  • Laid off Twilio employees will also receive the full value of their stock scheduled to vest in the next vesting, Lawson wrote in the memo.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • In 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • As for restricted stock units, job termination stops the vesting of RSUs.
    — Bruce Brumberg, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • A short vesting schedule allows your money more time to grow, and fewer penalties for leaving your job.
    — Sarah Szczypinski, USA TODAY, 18 June 2017
  • 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 move triggered an $8.5 million severance payout, as well as the vesting of stock valued at $25 million.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2019
  • The sale of the company triggered the vesting of most restricted shares and stock options held by executives.
    — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • I’ve been employed at my company for 15 years and have received regular stock grants, on a long-term vesting schedule, each year.
    — Rob Walker, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2016
  • In taking a long vesting period, the cofounders signaled the intent to slowly grow a mission with long-term impact.
    — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In 1934, a German plebiscite approved vesting sole executive power in Adolf Hitler.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The vesting of employment rights occurs on reenrollment.
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In February the bank paid $900m for Solium, a firm that manages share-vesting programmes at technology companies.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • At retirement, this kind of compensation usually gets cashed out or keeps vesting.
    — Matt Townsend and Anders Melin, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The Courant calculates compensation as the sum of salary, bonuses, value gained on the exercise of stock options and vesting of stock awards and value of perquisites, such as a retirement plan and personal use of the company’s plane.
    — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The PSCA says only about 39% of plans offer immediate, full vesting of matching contributions.
    — cleveland.com, 13 May 2017
  • To tighten the screws further, the restricted stock should ideally be two-thirds of the total compensation, vesting over at least five years and much of it collectable only if shareholders did better with their stock than the S&P 500 index did.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 5 May 2017
  • 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

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