veto

Meanings

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.

Verb

  • To use a veto against.

Origin

  • From Latin vetō ("I forbid").

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