Definitions for vetoes

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vetoes ve·to

Spelling: [vee-toh]

IPA: /ˈvi toʊ/

Vetoes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in vetoes (eeostv).

Definitions for vetoes

noun

1. the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
2. the exercise of this right.
3. Also called veto message. a document exercising such right and setting forth the reasons for such action.
4. a nonconcurring vote by which one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council can overrule the actions or decisions of the meeting on matters other than procedural.
5. an emphatic prohibition of any sort.
6. pocket veto.

verb (used with object)

1. to reject (a proposed bill or enactment) by exercising a veto.
2. to prohibit emphatically.

Origin of vetoes

First recorded in 1620-30, veto is from the Latin word vetō I forbid

Examples for vetoes

But if he vetoes it, he will likely lose the support of many Hispanic voters—the people he needs to win the general election.

Under the Constitution, of course, there is no line-item veto; a president either signs or vetoes an entire bill.

Many Syrians see the vetoes used to block a robust resolution as an excuse for inaction.

Last, what to do in light of the Security Council vetoes of China and, particularly, Russia?

“Truman and Clinton had vetoes to prove where they stood,” says Popkin.

Meanwhile, the President was making a unique record by his vetoes.

In July, 1856, he said that he had for eleven years maintained the vetoes of Mr. Polk.

Lincoln was in his grave, and Johnson, even with his vetoes, was powerless.

The King 'vetoes' the war; then let us hear what the People say!

They desired the freedoms of democracy, but also all the vetoes of democracy.