Associations to the word «Veto»
Noun
- Override
- Appropriation
- Legislation
- Bill
- Legislature
- Gaulle
- Ordinance
- Freedman
- Taft
- Repeal
- Truman
- Assent
- Tribune
- Governor
- Resolution
- Reagan
- Legislator
- Abortion
- Romney
- Woodrow
- Bills
- Nixon
- Authorization
- Lords
- Referendum
- Senate
- Disapproval
- Proposal
- Congress
- Vote
- Clinton
- Grover
- Hartley
- President
- Veto
- Third
- Amendment
- Sanction
- Charter
- Appointment
- Tariff
- Bush
- Majority
- Mayor
- Budget
- Spending
- Constitution
- Decree
- Reconstruction
- Compromise
- Nations
- Approval
- Presidency
- Council
- Session
- Funding
- Ban
- Objection
- Provision
- Measure
- Roosevelt
- Assembly
- Republican
- Magistrate
- Ratification
- Hayes
- Hoover
- Un
- Johnson
- Act
Adjective
Wiktionary
VETO, noun. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
VETO, noun. An invocation of that right.
VETO, noun. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
VETO, verb. (transitive) To use a veto against.
Dictionary definition
VETO, noun. A vote that blocks a decision.
VETO, noun. 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).
VETO, verb. Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill".
VETO, verb. Command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans".
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.