The President vetoed the bill, but Congress overrode his veto.
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Veto
//ˈviːtəʊ//
Synonyms for "veto" (84 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (42)
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11 entriesSynonyms
1 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
5 entriesentails
1 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
14 entriesTranslations
101 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نَقْضْ noun (political right)
Armenian
1 entries- վետո noun (invocation of that right)
Belarusian
2 entries- ве́та noun (invocation of that right)
- права вета noun (political right)
Bulgarian
3 entries- ве́то noun (political right)
- ве́то noun (invocation of that right)
- налагам ве́то verb (to use a veto against)
Catalan
1 entries- vet noun (political right)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 否決 /否决 noun (invocation of that right)
- 否決權 /否决权 noun (political right)
Czech
1 entries- veto noun (political right)
Danish
1 entries- veto noun (political right)
Dutch
1 entries- veto noun (political right)
Esperanto
2 entries- vetoo noun (political right)
- vetoi verb (to use a veto against)
Finnish
4 entries- veto noun (political right)
- veto noun (invocation of that right)
- veto-oikeus noun (political right)
- eittää verb (to use a veto against)
French
2 entries- veto noun (political right)
- veto noun (invocation of that right)
Galician
3 entries- veto noun (political right)
- veto noun (invocation of that right)
- vetar verb (to use a veto against)
Georgian
4 entries- ვეტო noun (political right)
- ვეტო noun (invocation of that right)
- ვეტოს უფლება noun (political right)
- ვეტოს ადებს verb (to use a veto against)
German
4 entries- Einspruch noun (political right)
- Einspruch noun (an authoritative prohibition or negative)
- Veto noun (political right)
- Veto noun (invocation of that right)
Greek
4 entries- αρνησικυρία noun (political right)
- αρνησικυρία noun (invocation of that right)
- βέτο noun (political right)
- βέτο noun (invocation of that right)
Hungarian
4 entries- megtiltás noun (an authoritative prohibition or negative)
- tiltás noun (an authoritative prohibition or negative)
- vétó noun (invocation of that right)
- vétójog noun (political right)
Icelandic
2 entries- neitunarvald noun (political right)
- beita neitunarvaldi verb (to use a veto against)
Indonesian
3 entries- hak veto noun (political right)
- veto noun (invocation of that right)
- memveto verb (to use a veto against)
Irish
4 entries- cros noun (political right)
- cros noun (invocation of that right)
- crosadh noun (invocation of that right)
- cros verb (to use a veto against)
Japanese
4 entries- 拒否 noun (invocation of that right)
- 拒否権 noun (political right)
- 拒否権を発動する verb (to use a veto against)
- 拒否権を行使する verb (to use a veto against)
Korean
3 entries- 거부 noun (invocation of that right)
- 거부권 noun (political right)
- 금지 noun (invocation of that right)
Latin
4 entries- vetare noun (political right)
- vetitum noun (political right)
- veto noun (political right)
- vetui noun (political right)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- veto noun (political right)
Polish
4 entries- weto noun (political right)
- weto noun (invocation of that right)
- wetować verb (to use a veto against)
- zawetować verb (to use a veto against)
Portuguese
3 entries- veto noun (political right)
- veto noun (invocation of that right)
- vetar verb (to use a veto against)
Romanian
1 entries- veto noun (political right)
Russian
4 entries- ве́то noun (political right)
- ве́то noun (invocation of that right)
- запре́т noun (invocation of that right)
- запреще́ние noun (invocation of that right)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- veto noun (political right)
- zabrana noun (political right)
- zabranjenje noun (political right)
Spanish
2 entries- veto noun (political right)
- vetar verb (to use a veto against)
Swahili
4 entries- kura ya turufu noun (political right)
- kura ya turufu noun (invocation of that right)
- veto noun (political right)
- veto noun (invocation of that right)
Swedish
1 entries- veto noun (political right)
Tagalog
2 entries- angsol noun (political right)
- angsol noun (invocation of that right)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ве́то noun (invocation of that right)
- пра́во ве́то noun (political right)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
On July tenth, the veto was announced.
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I have no authority to veto it.
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They have veto power.
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