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Veto
//ˈviːtəʊ// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
- 2 a vote that blocks a decision wordnet
- 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 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 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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- 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 To use a veto against. transitive
"The president vetoed the bill."
- 2 command against wordnet
- 3 To countermand. transitive
"Mom and Dad vetoed our menu preferences for the holiday meal."
- 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”).
See also for "veto"
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