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vetoes
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of veto English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: veto )
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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) v. vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Veto \Ve"to\, n.; pl. Vetoes . [L. veto I forbid.] An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family. --G. Eliot. Specifically: A power or right possessed ...
Usage examples of vetoes.
The road ceased to be Improved in any sort, and one recalled the vetoes of one’s predecessor, overriding the access highway bill from the high villages—and one’s own assertion to the aiji, mildly tipsy, that such would ‘undermine the rail priority,’ that the appeal from the mountain villages was a smoke screen—the aiji had taken to that expression with delight, once he understood it—covering provincial ambitions and leading provincial aijiin to sedition.
And now I know good, vetoes to your house, that are where you must be, and olvídame.
Suppose Dick vetoes my bridge, and this pervo puppy-slasher actually frees your dog, or what's left of your dog.