Veto

//ˈviːtəʊ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
  2. 2
    a vote that blocks a decision wordnet
  3. 3
    An invocation of that right.

    "I called Haig in and told him that I wanted to veto the agricultural appropriations bill we had discussed in the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, because I did not want Ford to have to do it on his first day as President. Haig brought the veto statement in, and I signed it. It was the last piece of legislation I acted on as President."

  4. 4
    the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature) wordnet
  5. 5
    An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

    "This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family."

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  1. 6
    A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.

    "An outer detector (OD) region will act as both a passive shield for low energy backgrounds and an active veto for cosmic ray muons."

Verb
  1. 1
    To use a veto against. transitive

    "The president vetoed the bill."

  2. 2
    command against wordnet
  3. 3
    To countermand. transitive

    "Mom and Dad vetoed our menu preferences for the holiday meal."

  4. 4
    vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin vetō (“I forbid”).

Etymology 2

From Latin vetō (“I forbid”).

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