veto message
1veto 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… …
2veto message — noun see veto I, 2b …
3Veto — 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… …
4veto — [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… …
5veto — 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,… …
6veto — vetoer, n. /vee toh/, n., pl. vetoes, v., vetoed, vetoing. n. 1. the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, esp. the right of a president, governor, or other… …
7the veto power — 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… …
8Veto — 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 …
9veto — /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… …
10veto — ve|to1 [ vitou ] verb transitive * to officially refuse to approve or allow something: The president will veto the election law if Congress passes it. a. to refuse to accept someone s suggestion: Diane has vetoed every idea I ve had so far. veto… …
