veto

Plural: vetoes, vetos

Noun

• 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)
• 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

Verb Forms: vetoed, vetoing, vetoes

• To forbid or reject something officially.
• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent
  • "The President vetoed the bill"
• command against
  • "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"
• To use a veto against.
• To countermand.

Examples

• His opponent tried to veto her play, but the word VETO was indeed valid.
• Mom and Dad vetoed our menu preferences for the holiday meal.
• The president vetoed the bill.

Synonyms

blackball, disallow, forbid, interdict, negative, nix, prohibit, proscribe

Antonyms

allow, permit

Anagrams of veto