to veto a law
1veto — ve·to 1 / vē tō/ n pl ve·toes [Latin, I forbid, refuse assent to] 1: an authoritative prohibition 2 a: a power vested in a chief executive to prevent permanently or temporarily the enactment of measures passed by a legislature b: the exercise of… …
2veto, line-item — n. The power to reject some portions of a law without rejecting the whole thing. See also pocket veto The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …
3law — / lȯ/ n [Old English lagu, of Scandinavian origin] 1: a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority: as a: a command or provision enacted by a legislature see also statute 1 b:… …
4veto — ve‧to [ˈviːtəʊ ǁ toʊ] verb [transitive] LAW to officially refuse to allow something to happen, especially something other people have agreed: • An attempt to use £35 million to strengthen the bank s capital was vetoed by bank regulators. veto… …
5Veto — Ve to, n.; pl. {Vetoes}. [L. veto I forbid.] [1913 Webster] 1. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. [1913 Webster] This contemptuous veto of her husband s on any intimacy with her family. G. Eliot. [1913… …
6veto message — Veto Ve to, n.; pl. {Vetoes}. [L. veto I forbid.] [1913 Webster] 1. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. [1913 Webster] This contemptuous veto of her husband s on any intimacy with her family. G. Eliot. [1913… …
7veto — [vē′tō] n. pl. vetoes [L, I forbid < vetare, to forbid] 1. a) an order prohibiting some proposed or intended act; prohibition, esp. by a person in authority b) the power to prevent action by such prohibition 2. the constitutional right or… …
8veto — ► NOUN (pl. vetoes) 1) a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law making body. 2) any prohibition. ► VERB (vetoes, vetoed) ▪ exercise a veto against. ORIGIN from Latin, I forbid , used by Roman tribunes …
9Veto — 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 …
10veto — /viytow/ (Lat. I forbid.) The refusal of assent by the executive officer whose assent is necessary to perfect a law which has been passed by the legislative body, and the message which is usually sent to such body by the executive, stating such… …
