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plural vetoes or vetos
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc. examples
An invocation of that right. quotations examples
I called Haig in and told him that I wanted to veto the agricultural appropriations bill we had discussed in the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, because I did not want Ford to have to do it on his first day as President. Haig brought the veto statement in, and I signed it. It was the last piece of legislation I acted on as President.
1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973-1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, page 1078
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. quotations examples
This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.
1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 44, in Daniel Deronda, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons
A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment quotations examples
An outer detector (OD) region will act as both a passive shield for low energy backgrounds and an active veto for cosmic ray muons.
2021 J.R. Wilson and the Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration 2021 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2156 012153
third-person singular simple present vetoes, present participle vetoing, simple past and past participle vetoed
(transitive) To use a veto against. examples