veto

/ˈviːtəʊ//ˈviːtoʊ/

noun

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    An invocation of that right.

  3. 3

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

verb

  1. 1

    To use a veto against.

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