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Veto

noun

(pl. vetoes)

A vote that blocks a decision.

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).

verb

(past & past part. vetoed; pres. part. vetoing)

Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent. Synonyms: blackball, negative.

Command against. Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe. "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store" , "Dad nixed our plans"

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"Veto" Quotes from Famous Books

... by Spencer to use his influence toward the desired end. Huxley saw the incongruity of the situation, and in a letter that reveals the logical mind and the direct, literary, Huxley quality, he placed his gentle veto on the proposition and thus saved the "enemy" the mortification ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists • Elbert Hubbard

... assembled at Nuremberg early in 1524, naturally refrained from passing more futile laws for the emperor to veto, but on the other hand it took a stronger stand than ever on the religious question. The Edict of Worms was still nominally in force and was still to all intents and purposes flouted. Luther was at large and his followers were gaining. In reply to a demand from the government that ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... over completely in its own field. It developed enough pressure to get whatever appropriations it wanted, even over Presidential veto. It created the only space experts, which meant that the men placed in government agencies to regulate it came from its ...

— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey

... is far more to them to marry the men they love than to a man to marry any particular woman. It seems to me that making suitable matches is not such an easy matter that society can afford to leave the chief part of it to the stupider sex, giving women merely the right of veto. To be sure, even now women who are artful enough manage to evade the prohibition laid on their lips and make their preference known. I am proud to say that I have a royal husband, who would never have looked my way if I had not set out to make him do ...

— A Love Story Reversed - 1898 • Edward Bellamy

... it without many sorts of disaster. He respects it, therefore, with the good faith of an honest man. Even when he is himself a novelist, with ardor for his art and impatience of the limitations put upon it, he interposes his veto, as Thackeray did in the case of Trollope when a contributor ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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