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1put — 1. v. & n. v. (putting; past and past part. put) 1 tr. move to or cause to be in a specified place or position (put it in your pocket; put the children to bed; put your signature here). 2 tr. bring into a specified condition, relation, or state… …
2put one's veto to — index condemn (ban) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3put one's veto upon — index bar (hinder) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
4veto — [n] refusal of permission ban, blackball*, declination, denial, embargo, interdict, interdiction, negative, nonconsent, prohibition; concepts 81,121,298,685 Ant. allowance, approval, ok, permission, ratification, sanction veto [v] refuse… …
5Veto — For other uses of Veto , see Veto (disambiguation). A veto, Latin for I forbid , is the power of an officer of the state to unilaterally stop an official action, especially enactment of a piece of legislation. Veto: An emphatic prohibition of any …
6veto — Synonyms and related words: absolute veto, ban, block, constitute, decline, decree, defeat, denial, deny, disallow, disallowance, embargo, enact, enact laws, executive veto, filibuster, forbid, get the floor, have the floor, interdict,… …
7veto — [[t]vi͟ːtoʊ[/t]] vetoes, vetoing, vetoed 1) VERB If someone in authority vetoes something, they forbid it, or stop it being put into action. [V n] De Gaulle vetoed Britain s application to join the EEC... [V n] The President vetoed the economic… …
8veto — n. & v. n. (pl. oes) 1 a a constitutional right to reject a legislative enactment. b the right of a permanent member of the UN Security Council to reject a resolution. c such a rejection. d an official message conveying this. 2 a prohibition (put …
9put through — Synonyms and related words: abide by, accomplish, achieve, adhere to, administer, bring about, bring off, bring through, bring to effect, bring to pass, canalize, carry into effect, carry into execution, carry off, carry out, carry through,… …
10veto — 1. noun the president s right of veto Syn: rejection, dismissal; prohibition, proscription, embargo, ban, interdict, check; informal thumbs down, red light Ant: approval 2. verb China vetoed the proposal Syn: reject …