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n. The vested power or constitutional right of one branch or department of government to refuse approval of measures proposed by another department, especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature and thus prevent or delay its enactment into law.

n. Exercise of this right.

n. An official document or message from a chief executive stating the reasons for rejection of a bill.

n. An authoritative prohibition or rejection of a proposed or intended act.

v. To prevent (a legislative bill) from becoming law by exercising the power of veto.

v. To forbid or prohibit authoritatively.

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

n. An invocation of that right.

v. To use a veto against.

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

n. A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.

n. The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention.

n. A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.

v. To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment.

n. In a constitutional government, the right vested in one branch of it to negative the determinations of another branch; specifically, the right, under constitutional restrictions, of the executive, as a king, a president, or a governor, to reject a bill passed, by the legislature; also, the act of exercising this right.

n. Any right or power of authoritatively forbidding or effectively negativing, or the exercise of such right or power; prohibition; interdict.

To forbid authoritatively; specifically, to negative by exercising the constitutional right of veto: as, to veto a bill.

n. 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)

n. a vote that blocks a decision

v. vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

v. command against

"This agitation from without rendered the debates upon the veto stormy; in this way a very simple question acquired great importance, and the ministry, perceiving how fatal the influence of an absolute decision might prove, and seeing, also, that the _unlimited veto_ and the _suspensive veto_ were one and the same thing, induced the king to be satisfied with the latter, and give up the former."

vetoed    vetoes    vetoing   

power    powerfulness   

forbiddance    forbid    absolute veto    veto act    pocket veto    suspensory veto    liberum veto   

vetoes    the veto power    veto message   

vetoed    vetoing   

forbidding    interdiction    prohibit    negative    intercession    intercede   

Akihito    Benito    Hirohito    Ito    Leto    Marielito    Miskito    Mosquito    Quito    Sausalito   

enactment    authorization