veto

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law…

   A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

2. 2

   An invocation of that right.

   • Now, Republican legislators cannot afford to lose a single seat, in either chamber, if they want to continue to override his vetoes.
3. 3

   An authoritative prohibition or negative

   An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

   • This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.
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   1. 4

      A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive…

      A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.

      • An outer detector (OD) region will act as both a passive shield for low energy backgrounds and an active veto for cosmic ray muons.
   2. 5

      To use a veto against.

      • The president vetoed the bill.
      • The railway was in fact shifted in 1937 a little to the west, over a distance of a quarter-mile, to make room for the by-pass at this point, but complete abandonment was firmly vetoed because of the proved strategic value of the line.
      • Perhaps more notably, they also expect 25 percent of all Spac acquisitions to be vetoed by shareholders in 2008 — which will force those Spacs to liquidate.
   3. 6

      To countermand.

      • Mom and Dad vetoed our menu preferences for the holiday meal.

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