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
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable
fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those
symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated
by the inaudible language of the heart.