Sekirov Dictionary

veto

UK /ˈviːtəʊ/US /ˈvi.toʊ/

noun 4
verb 2
forms 4

noun4

A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
•
An invocation of that right.
- Now, Republican legislators cannot afford to lose a single seat, in either chamber, if they want to continue to override his vetoes. — 2024
•
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
- This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family. — 1876
•
A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.
- An outer detector (OD) region will act as both a passive shield for low energy backgrounds and an active veto for cosmic ray muons. — 2021

verb2

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To use a veto against.
- The president vetoed the bill.
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To countermand.
- Mom and Dad vetoed our menu preferences for the holiday meal.

forms

vetoed · vetoing · vetoes · vetos

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