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B2 noun #7,011 most common

veto

UK /ˈviːtəʊ/ | US /ˈviːtəʊ/
veto in 30 Seconds

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

veto in 30 Seconds

  • (noun) A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
  • (noun) An invocation of that right.
  • (noun) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
  2. 2
    noun An invocation of that right.
  3. 3
    noun An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
  4. 4
    verb To use a veto against.
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