veto

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈviːtəʊ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈviːtoʊ/
  • Flapping is optional: IPA: [ˈviːɾoʊ] or IPA: [ˈviːtʰoʊ].

Noun

veto (plural vetoes or vetos)

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

   • This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.

Translations

• French: veto
• German: Veto, Einspruch
• Portuguese: veto
• Russian: ве́то
• Spanish: veto

Translations

• French: veto
• German: Veto
• Portuguese: veto
• Russian: ве́то

Verb

veto (vetoes, present participle vetoing; past and past participle vetoed)

1. (transitive) To use a veto#Noun|veto against.

Translations

• Portuguese: vetar
• Russian: накла́дывать ве́то
• Spanish: vetar

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