veto
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
Other meanings
An invocation of that right.
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
Related words
- heckler's veto
- liberum veto
- line-item veto
- pocket veto
- veto pen
Word history
From Latin "vetō" (to forbid).
Where this comes from
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