veto

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ve=to

CIDE DICTIONARY

veto, n. [L. veto I forbid.].

 An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.  [1913 Webster]
"This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family."  [1913 Webster]

veto, v. t. 

 To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

veto, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -oes)
1 a a constitutional right to reject a legislative enactment. b the right of a permanent member of the UN Security Council to reject a resolution. c such a rejection. d an official message conveying this.
2 a prohibition (put one's veto on a proposal).
--v.tr. (-oes, -oed)
1 exercise a veto against (a measure etc.).
2 forbid authoritatively.

Derivative

vetoer n.

Etymology

L, = I forbid, with ref. to its use by Roman tribunes of the people in opposing measures of the Senate

THESAURUS

veto

absolute veto, ban, block, constitute, decline, decree, defeat, denial, deny, disallow, disallowance, embargo, enact, enact laws, executive veto, filibuster, forbid, get the floor, have the floor, interdict, interdiction, item veto, kill, killing, legislate, limited negative, limited veto, lobby through, logroll, negative, nix, ordain, outlaw, pass, pigeonhole, pocket, pocket veto, preclude, preclusion, prevent, prevention, prohibit, prohibition, proscribe, proscription, put in force, put through, quash, quashing, railroad through, refuse, reject, rejection, roll logs, rule against, rule out, senatorial courtesy, stop, stoppage, suspensory veto, table, taboo, take the floor, turn down, veto message, veto power, yield the floor

ROGET THESAURUS

veto

Prohibition

N prohibition, inhibition, veto, disallowance, interdict, interdiction, injunction, estoppel, embargo, ban, taboo, proscription, index expurgatorius, restriction, hindrance, forbidden fruit, Maine law, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, restrictive, exclusive, forbidding, prohibited, not permitted, unlicensed, contraband, impermissible, under the ban of, illegal, unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale, on no account, Int, forbid it heaven!, hands off!, keep off!, hold!, stop!, desist!, cease and desist!, avast!, that will never do, don't you dare, forget it, don't even think about doing it, go ahead, make my day.