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UK
/vˈiːtəʊ/
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[ US /ˈviˌtoʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈviˌtoʊ/ ]
VERB
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vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent
The President vetoed the bill -
command against
I forbid you to call me late at night
Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
Dad nixed our plans
NOUN
- 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)
- a vote that blocks a decision
How To Use veto In A Sentence
- It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
- Plans for the dam have been vetoed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Second thing to be considered in it, to wit, the thing we are dehorted from, which is covetousness. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
- This meeting, however, proved abortive when France and Great Britain exercised their veto right to obstruct a resolution calling on The Nobel Peace Prize 1961 - Presentation Speech
- The former, namely, covetoufnefs, is a very mean and fordid palTion — refllefs, im - patient — and never contented With its A a prefent Sermons on practical subjects
- NHS penpusher boom: Wages bill is up £78m as 'costly' drugs are vetoed Home | Mail Online
- The vote fell short of the majority needed for an override of the Governor's veto.
- The Meal Maker Belgian waffle baker and sandwich griddle is a big stand-in for à full stovetop.
- Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have a veto over any proposal.
- It's all a matter of perspective and intent, something Cave covetously explores across the two discs.
