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veto
/ˈvi.toʊ/
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What does veto mean?
noun
- A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
- An invocation of that right.
- An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.
verb
- To use a veto against.
- To countermand.
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It was promptly vetoed by President Johnson, as "unconstitutional," "unnecessary," and "extrajudicial," and failed of passage over the veto.
To attribute to any power whatever the right of veto or of sanction, is the last degree of tyranny.
More book examples (3)
There is still another reason why the weaker party, or the minority, should have a veto upon all legislation which they disapprove.
He is armed with a veto or suspensive power, which allows him to stop, or at least to retard, its movements at pleasure.
There is another ground for the adoption of the veto principle, which had probably more influence in recommending it to the Convention than any other.