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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
veto
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pocket veto
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bill
▪ Last year the proposal was part of the overall tax bill which was vetoed by former President Bush.
▪ The measure gives presidents the power to veto specific spending projects or tax breaks within a bill without vetoing it altogether.
▪ The spectre of quotas was the reason that businessmen gave for opposing the civil-rights bill the president vetoed last October.
▪ Two previous bills had been vetoed by President Bush.
▪ The bill was vetoed by President Clinton.
▪ I will veto any attempt to repeal the assault weapons ban or the Brady bill.
budget
▪ Archer suggested many of the reforms sought by Clinton were in the seven-year balanced budget package vetoed by the president.
▪ Last year, Weld proposed a $ 25 million budget cut, then vetoed a $ 19 million budget increase.
decision
▪ The new law also empowered parliament to veto any government decision on direct links within 30 days.
▪ If the president vetoes their decision, both chambers must then muster a two-thirds vote to override the veto.
▪ The President also undertook not to veto decisions taken by the Cabinet.
▪ The teams were to operate by consensus, each having the power to veto decisions, none with the power to impose.
government
▪ Will the Government veto a draft treaty Hon. Members Would you?
idea
▪ I vetoed the idea on the grounds that Firecracker would spot the deception in two seconds.
▪ Our official escort Mundin vetoes both ideas.
legislation
▪ If the president can be induced to veto Dole legislation, that claim will look stronger still.
▪ President Clinton has vowed to veto the legislation.
▪ The Senate would have the power to veto legislation affecting Melanesians, but would have restricted powers over financial legislation.
▪ Although the chief executive can veto legislation, the legislature can override that veto.
▪ Losing the majority in the Bundesrat, which may veto tax legislation, is a nuisance but not a disaster.
▪ Clinton already has vetoed Republican-drafted welfare reform legislation twice.
▪ In 1993, Wilson vetoed routine enabling legislation to keep the advertising program going.
measure
▪ If passed it would present Bush with the politically undesirable prospect of having to veto the measure during the election campaign.
▪ John KitzEaber, a Democrat, also threatened to veto any measure that eliminated the certificates.
▪ President Clinton vetoed the first two measures.
▪ Clinton has vowed to veto the measure and a similar version now being considered by the Senate.
plan
▪ He can veto such plans, confirming his reputation as an uncaring conservative.
▪ But Wilson still vetoed the plan, saying it essentially preserved the current system.
power
▪ The Senate would have the power to veto legislation affecting Melanesians, but would have restricted powers over financial legislation.
▪ The measure gives presidents the power to veto specific spending projects or tax breaks within a bill without vetoing it altogether.
▪ The teams were to operate by consensus, each having the power to veto decisions, none with the power to impose.
president
▪ The president vetoed the bill - and the Senate failed by a single vote to override his veto.
▪ The measure gives presidents the power to veto specific spending projects or tax breaks within a bill without vetoing it altogether.
▪ The spectre of quotas was the reason that businessmen gave for opposing the civil-rights bill the president vetoed last October.
▪ It reeks of just another favor to the rich, and the president has vowed to veto it.
▪ The president vetoed two reform proposals late last year.
▪ The president vetoed those cuts, and is working to keep Medicare affordable for this and future generations of seniors.
▪ The president vetoed two previous Republican-sponsored welfare reform bills.
▪ If the president vetoes their decision, both chambers must then muster a two-thirds vote to override the veto.
proposal
▪ Commercial considerations appear to be partly behind its threat to veto the proposal.
▪ The president vetoed two reform proposals late last year.
▪ The measure, which becomes law Jan. 1, no longer allows a city council to unilaterally veto a secession proposal.
welfare
▪ Clinton already has vetoed Republican-drafted welfare reform legislation twice.
▪ The president vetoed two previous Republican-sponsored welfare reform bills.
■ VERB
promise
▪ The difference is that last year George Bush promised to veto the bill, and did so.
▪ The Republican governor, Arne Carlson, has promised to veto the bill.
threaten
▪ Bush threatened to veto the compromise bill which seemed likely to emerge from these two versions of the unemployment legislation.
▪ John KitzEaber, a Democrat, also threatened to veto any measure that eliminated the certificates.
▪ The following day he threatened to veto the law again and, if necessary, to dissolve parliament.
▪ Other contract proposals are languishing in the Senate, and Clinton has either vetoed or threatened to veto the rest.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ European plans to deregulate air fares were vetoed by Spain.
▪ Jenny wanted to invite all her friends, but I quickly vetoed that idea.
▪ Requests to take foster children abroad are often vetoed by the biological parent.
▪ The deal was agreed by the board but vetoed by the chairman.
▪ The governor vetoed a bill that would have given some much-needed money to public libraries.
▪ The governor vetoed another version of the bill last fall.
▪ The president has the right to veto any piece of legislation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bill Clinton vetoed the balanced budget.
▪ If the president can be induced to veto Dole legislation, that claim will look stronger still.
▪ It generally works by consensus, so a country can veto its conclusions.
▪ It reeks of just another favor to the rich, and the president has vowed to veto it.
▪ Other contract proposals are languishing in the Senate, and Clinton has either vetoed or threatened to veto the rest.
▪ Participants may read the transcript and, if they are unhappy, can veto release for a time.
▪ President Clinton has vowed to veto the legislation.
▪ The teams were to operate by consensus, each having the power to veto decisions, none with the power to impose.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
legislative
▪ This is the perspective from which we should approach the novel constitutional questions presented by the legislative veto.
▪ This procedure came to be known as the legislative veto.
▪ The prominence of the legislative veto mechanism in our contemporary political system and its importance to Congress can hardly be overstated.
▪ Accordingly, over the past five decades, the legislative veto has been placed in nearly 200 statutes.
presidential
▪ With those southerners on board, Mr Edwards believes Congress may have a chance of overriding another presidential veto.
▪ The final vote was 57-41, well short of the 65 needed to override a presidential veto.
▪ He said that if necessary he would use his presidential veto.
▪ J.. Even if passed by the Senate, it faces a near-certain presidential veto.
▪ A subsequent vote in the Senate failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn a presidential veto.
▪ However, the measure faces a certain presidential veto if it clears the Senate.
▪ If Congress and the administration are to avoid a head-on clash, and a presidential veto, a compromise must be struck.
▪ It is not smart politics to sit back and wait for presidential vetoes and proclamations to bail us out of every jam.
■ NOUN
message
▪ Wilson wrote in a veto message.
▪ Mr Clinton said in his veto message.
▪ His veto message is significant because it makes it even harder for lawmakers to equalize school funding.
power
▪ The candidates of the main parties are selected locally, though the national party in each case retains some veto power.
▪ N., the national agencies held veto power, giving them a privileged status befitting their clout and status.
▪ Time and again action by the Security Council was blocked by the veto power of the Soviet Union and other permanent members.
▪ First and foremost, our fear that the right wing would have veto power over appointments to the Supreme Court.
▪ The Bush administration criticized the decision and threatened to use its veto powers.
▪ The president, with his veto power, blocked these reactionary schemes.
▪ She argued that the veto power robbed Valley voters of the right to decide their fate.
■ VERB
exercise
▪ The first president to have the power, Clinton has now exercised the line-item veto 55 times in three months.
give
▪ This would have given a veto to the whites, in particular Afrikaans-speaking whites.
▪ The trouble with the proposal was that under no circumstances would the United States give up its ultimate veto on the bombs.
▪ Suggestions in the bill for an independent panel of experts to be given the power of veto over the research were rejected.
▪ In a key vote Wednesday night, the Senate agreed to give line-item veto authority to the next president.
▪ Although that would reduce the union block vote more drastically than other options, it would also give both sides a veto.
▪ Successful operation is obviously the way to achieve that not by giving employees a veto as proposed in amendment No. 3.
override
▪ With those southerners on board, Mr Edwards believes Congress may have a chance of overriding another presidential veto.
▪ Clinton vetoed the bill after being lobbied by trial lawyers, but Congress overrode the veto.
▪ The Louisiana House of Representatives immediately voted to override his veto, by 73 votes to 31.
▪ Although the chief executive can veto legislation, the legislature can override that veto.
▪ As in the 29 other instances, an attempt by Congress to override the veto failed to muster the required two-thirds majority.
▪ Republicans acknowledge little hope of getting enough votes to override a Clinton veto.
▪ On June 24 the House voted by only 271:156 in favour of overriding the veto.
▪ The final vote was 57-41, well short of the 65 needed to override a presidential veto.
threaten
▪ The Bush administration criticized the decision and threatened to use its veto powers.
▪ President Clinton had threatened a veto of the immigration bill if it included the Gallegly amendment.
▪ But President Clinton has threatened a veto if it contains the Gallegly amendment.
use
▪ He said that if necessary he would use his presidential veto.
▪ He has instead decided to settle for being the first president to use the line-item veto.
▪ The Bush administration criticized the decision and threatened to use its veto powers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As a result of the president's veto the inner-cities program will not now go ahead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bush thus maintained his record of never having had a veto overridden in Congress.
▪ However, the effect of requiring unanimity means in practice that any one constituent body has a right of veto.
▪ It remains to be seen whether the line-item veto will control spending.
▪ The president vetoed the bill - and the Senate failed by a single vote to override his veto.
▪ The president, with his veto power, blocked these reactionary schemes.
▪ The Senate gave President Clinton a victory Thursday when lawmakers sustained his veto of a bill banning certain late-term abortions.
▪ The two houses would have absolute veto rights over each other.
▪ Unfortunately, the line-item veto is one of those dumb ideas that took on a life of its own.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Veto

Veto \Ve"to\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vetoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Vetoing.] To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.

Veto

Veto \Ve"to\, n.; pl. Vetoes. [L. veto I forbid.]

  1. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

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

  2. Specifically:

    1. A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.

    2. The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes.

    3. A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message. [U. S.]

      Note: Veto is not a term employed in the Federal Constitution, but seems to be of popular use only.
      --Abbott.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
veto

1620s, from Latin veto, literally "I forbid," first person singular present indicative of vetare "forbid, prohibit, oppose, hinder," of unknown origin. In ancient Rome, the "technical term for protest interposed by a tribune of the people against any measure of the Senate or of the magistrates" [Lewis].

veto

1706, from veto (n.). Related: Vetoed; vetoing.

Wiktionary
veto

n. 1 A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc. 2 An invocation of that right. 3 An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. vb. (context transitive English) To use a veto#Noun against.

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WordNet
veto

  1. n. a vote that blocks a decision

  2. 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)

  3. v. vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill" [syn: blackball, negative]

  4. command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, disallow] [ant: permit, permit]

  5. [also: vetoes (pl)]

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Wikipedia
Vető

Vető is a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Tamás Vető (1935-), Hungarian-born Danish conductor
  • Gábor Vető (1988-), Hungarian boxer
  • :hu:Vető József (1910-1977) Hungarian journalist
  • Lajos Vető (1904-1989) Hungarian Lutheran bishop
Veto (band)

VETO is a Danish indie rock band formed in 2004. They released their first EP, I Will Not Listen, in 2005 and their first full-length album, There's A Beat In All Machines, in 2006, both released on the Danish hip hop label, Tabu Records/Playground Music Denmark.

In February 2007 VETO won the award for Best New Act, as well as Best Danish Music Video at Danish Music Awards.

Their song "You Are A Knife" was featured briefly in the American television program NCIS episode " Suspicion".

VETO's second album is called Crushing Digits and was released 5 May 2008. The first single for the album, "Built to Fail", was released in March 2008 and received heavy airplay as "Ugens Uundgåelige" (Unavoidable of the week) on the public service radio channel DR P3.

The band was awarded Danish Band of the Year at the Danish Music Awards 2009.

The band's third studio album, entitled Everything is Amplified, was released February 25, 2011.

Veto (disambiguation)

Veto is the power to stop an action

Veto may also refer to:

Places
  • Veto, Alabama
  • Veto, Ohio
  • Veto, West Virginia
People
  • Gabor Veto (born 1988), Hungarian boxer
  • Vető, Hungarian surname
Music
  • Veto (band), a Danish rock band
  • Veto (album), a 2013 extreme metal album by Heaven Shall Burn
Veto (album)

Veto is the seventh studio album by German extreme metal band Heaven Shall Burn, released on 19 April 2013 through Century Media Records. The album entered the US Top Heatseekers albums at #14 selling 1,175 copies in the first week.

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Usage examples of "veto".

Tabini-aiji called disgraceful, and which Bren had reluctantly promised to try to discourage, the paidhi being obliged to exert bidirectional influence, although without any veto power over human habits.

The General Government of the Union is composed of three departments, of which the Congress is the legislative branch, and which is checked by the revisory power of the judiciary, and the veto power of the Executive, and, above all, is expressly limited in legislation to powers expressly delegated by the States.

Elected Tribune 150 Brings forward an Agrarian Law 150 Opposition of the landowners 150 The Tribune Octavius puts his veto upon it 150 Deposition of Octavius 151 The Agrarian Law enseted 151 Three Commissioners elected 151 Distribution of the treasures of Pergamus among the Roman people 151 Renewed opposition to Tiberius 151 He becomes a candidate for the Tribunate a second time 151 Riots 152 Death of Tiberius 152 132.

Susan or Vicki for lunch, definitely accompany Barbara to the hospital for her scheduled laparoscopy, an idea Tony had initially vetoed.

After many squawkings, orations, protests and uses of veto, an area of eighty square miles just south of Padang in Sumatra was finally ceded as a Rosk base.

By the time I got back to Washington, the Republicans had begun to move on their proposals, and I spent most of the rest of the month trying to beat them back, threatening to veto their rescission package, their attempts to weaken our clean water program, and the large cuts they had proposed in education, health care, and foreign aid.

Your father has no right to comment on what I may or may not choose to do, just as I have no veto over the way he lives his life.

Leroy wanted to shoot one and cut it up, but I remembered the battle Tweel and I had had with them, and vetoed the idea.

In the initial interrogation by Tribunal president Herman, she was represented as an ungovernable wife, forcing Louis, for example, to issue the veto against anticlerical legislation and organizing the flight to Varennes.

The President may veto any appropriation or appropriations, and approve any other appropriation or appropriations, in the same bill.

The Baltimore convention passed a set of resolutions, among other things, approving these vetoes, and General Cass declares, in his letter accepting the nomination, that he has carefully read these resolutions, and that he adheres to them as firmly as he approves them cordially.

Messala Rufus tried to cast the lots to see which of the patrician prefects of each decury of ten senators would become the first Interrex, Bursa vetoed.

The whole House howled its outrage, Clodius and Milo loudest of all, but Bursa could not be prevailed upon to withdraw his veto.

He had used his veto twice in the research and development council, never with this minister of Works, although his predecessor had done it a record eighteen times on the never-completed Transmontane Highway, which was now, since the rail link, a moot point.

Plebs took to defend the sacrosanctity or inviolability of its elected tribunes, and in their right to exercise a veto against the actions of fellow tribunes of the plebs, or anyor allother magistrates, or the holding of an election, or the passing of a law or plebiscite, or decrees of the Senate, even in war and foreign affairs.