Veto

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈviːtəʊ/
• US IPA: /ˈviːtoÊŠ/
• Rhymes: -iːtəʊ

Origin

• From Latin vetō ("I forbid")

Full definition of veto

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To use a veto against.

Anagrams

• vote, Vote