Veto

Quick meaning: Veto is a noun meaning A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

Meaning

A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

More Meanings

1. An invocation of that right.
2. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
3. A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.
4. (transitive) To use a veto against.
5. (transitive) To countermand.

Example Sentences

The president vetoed the bill.

This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.

An outer detector (OD) region will act as both a passive shield for low energy backgrounds and an active veto for cosmic ray muons.

Now, Republican legislators cannot afford to lose a single seat, in either chamber, if they want to continue to override his vetoes.

Word Forms

• vetoes
• vetos
• vetoing
• vetoed

Synonyms for veto

Depending on context, synonyms include forbid, proscribe, prohibit, interdict, disallow, blackball.

Antonyms for veto

Common opposites include countenance, allow, permit, let.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prohibit, proscribe, forbid, blackball, disallow, negative.

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