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Veto   /vˈitoʊ/  /vˈitˌoʊ/   Listen
Veto

noun
(pl. vetoes)
1.
A vote that blocks a decision.
2.
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).
verb
(past & past part. vetoed; pres. part. vetoing)
1.
Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent.  Synonyms: blackball, negative.
2.
Command against.  Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe.  "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store" , "Dad nixed our plans"



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"Veto" Quotes from Famous Books



... has a simple method of solving difficulties. Speaking of Article 4 of the Convention of 1884, which gives England the right of veto on all treaties contemplated between the South African Republic and foreign ...
— Boer Politics • Yves Guyot
... Superintendent to the very spot in the main room of the Works where, six months before, the Inaugural had been pronounced and the first Veto spoken and enacted. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... vetoed the bills, the people had called the King, Monsieur Veto; Marie Antoinette, Madame Veto, and the Dauphin, Little Veto, and now from all sides burst forth the cry, "The red cap for the Dauphin! ...
— Ten Boys from History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... by making a clear, brief, and dignified defense of the position of Taylor upon the question of the proper use of the veto; he then avows with characteristic candor that he does not know what General Taylor will do as to slavery; he is himself "a Northern man, or rather a Western free-State man, with a constituency I believe to be, and with personal feelings I know to be, against the extension ...
— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay
... truly for excitement. Mite was a young gentleman of some dignity. He sat elevated on a hassock upon a chair to dine at luncheon-time, comporting himself most correctly; but his aunt was sorely chafed at Eden's standing behind his chair, like Sancho's physician, to regulate his diet, and placing her veto upon lobsters, cucumbers, pastry, and glasses of wine with lumps ...
— That Stick • Charlotte M. Yonge


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