Definition of veto

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

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Vetoist :: Vetoist (n.) One who uses, or sustains the use of, the veto..
Veto :: Veto (n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
Veto :: Veto (n.) The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes..
Misery :: Misery (n.) Covetousness; niggardliness; avarice.
Gripple :: Gripple (a.) Griping; greedy; covetous; tenacious.
Niggardly :: Niggardly (a.) Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard.
Covetousness :: Covetousness (n.) A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.
Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
Lust :: Lust (n.) To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after..
Cob :: Cob (n.) A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person..
Covetous :: Covetous (v. t.) Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.
Veto :: Veto (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..
Covetousness :: Covetousness (n.) Strong desire.
Miserly :: Miserly (a.) Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.
Hard-fisted :: Hard-fisted (a.) Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.
Covetous :: Covetous (v. t.) Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.
Niggard :: Niggard (n.) A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser..
Vetoed :: Vetoed (imp. & p. p.) of Vet.
Niggard :: Niggard (a.) Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.
Hunks :: Hunks (n.) A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard..
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