veto
IPA: vˈitoʊ
noun
- A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
- An invocation of that right.
- An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
- A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment
verb
- (transitive) To use a veto against.
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Examples of "veto" in Sentences
- The president has the power to veto any bills passed by Congress
- The senator threatened to veto the proposed budget unless changes were made
- The committee's decision was overridden by the governor's veto
- The board of directors voted to veto the proposal for a new office location
- The country's leader exercised his veto power to block the legislation from being enacted
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