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noun. The constitutional power of the chief executive of a state or nation to prevent or delay the enactment of legislation passed by the legislature.

noun. An instance in which this right is exercised.

noun. An official document or message from a chief executive stating the reasons for rejection of a bill.

noun. The power of one party or entity to forbid the actions or decisions of another party or entity.

noun. A prohibition or rejection of a proposed or intended act.

transitive verb. To prevent or delay (a legislative bill) from becoming law by exercising the power of veto.

transitive verb. To forbid, prohibit, or decide against.

To forbid authoritatively; specifically, to negative by exercising the constitutional right of veto: as, to veto a bill.

noun. In a constitutional government, the right vested in one branch of it to negative the determinations of another branch; specifically, the right, under constitutional restrictions, of the executive, as a king, a president, or a governor, to reject a bill passed, by the legislature; also, the act of exercising this right.

noun. Any right or power of authoritatively forbidding or effectively negativing, or the exercise of such right or power; prohibition; interdict.

transitive verb. To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment.

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

noun. 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.

noun. The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention.

noun. A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.

noun. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

noun. An invocation of that right.

verb. To use a veto against.

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)

noun. a vote that blocks a decision

verb. vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

verb. command against

"This agitation from without rendered the debates upon the veto stormy; in this way a very simple question acquired great importance, and the ministry, perceiving how fatal the influence of an absolute decision might prove, and seeing, also, that the _unlimited veto_ and the _suspensive veto_ were one and the same thing, induced the king to be satisfied with the latter, and give up the former."

absolute veto  forbid  forbiddance  liberum veto  pocket veto  

vetoed  vetoing  

power  powerfulness  

Akihito  Benito  Hirohito  Ito  Leto  

authorization  enactment  

absolute veto  ban  block  constitute  decline  

the veto power  veto message  vetoes  

vetoed  vetoes  vetoing