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Veto

noun

(pl. vetoes)

A vote that blocks a decision.

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)

Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent. Synonyms: blackball, negative.

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

... the most creditable portion of his political history; but it certainly argues well for his magnanimity and freedom from merely personal resentment that he gave this appointment to the man who had animadverted upon that course with the greatest freedom, and whose rebuke of the veto pledge, severe in its truth and justice, formed the only discord in the paean of partisan flattery which greeted his inaugural. But, however well intended, it came too late. In the midst of the congratulations of his friends on the brightening prospect ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... bill with a veto. He had the audacity to rest his veto upon the ground that the bill was unconstitutional, and that it was the duty of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of every measure without feeling in the least bound by the opinion of Congress or ...

— Daniel Webster • Henry Cabot Lodge

... and of all personal intrigue from within, is to obtain this imperial consent to measures suggested by considerations of private advantage or public necessity. The Ottoman Empire may be described as an irregular democracy, whose acts are all subject to the veto of an absolute autocrat. The officials pass their lives in proposing, and his Majesty very generally spends his time in opposing, all manner of schemes, good, bad, and indifferent. The contradictory nature of the system produces the anomalous ...

— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford

... chummy with Swifty Joe and took to sunnin' himself in the studio front windows, until I had to veto that. ...

— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... decided that the Sovereign must sanction every bill which Parliament approves and resolves to make law. Queen Anne was the last occupant of the English throne who ventured to veto a bill, by refusing to assent to it. That was in 1707, or more than two hundred years ago, and there is little probability that any wearer of the crown will ever attempt to do what she did. In fact, an able and authoritative English writer has not hesitated to declare that ...

— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery

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