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Webster 1913 Edition

Veto

Ve′to

(vē′tō̍)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Vetoes
(vē′tōz)
.
[L.
veto
I forbid.]
1.
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
This contemptuous
veto
of her husband’s on any intimacy with her family.
G. Eliot.
2.
Specifically: –
(a)
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
.
(b)
The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention;
as, a
veto
is probable if the bill passes
.
(c)
A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; – called also
veto message
.
[U. S.]
☞ Veto is not a term employed in the Federal Constitution, but seems to be of popular use only.
Abbott.

Ve′to

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Vetoed
(vē′tōd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Vetoing
.]
To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment;
as, to
veto
an appropriation bill
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Veto

VE'TO

,
Noun.
[L. veto, I forbid.] A forbidding; prohibition; or the right of forbidding; applied to the right of a king or other magistrate or officer to withhold his assent to the enactment of a law, or the passing of a decree. Thus the king of Great Britain has a veto upon every act of parliament; he sometimes prevents the passing of a law by his vet.

Definition 2024

vetó

vetó

See also: veto, Veto, and véto

Spanish

Verb

vetó

  1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) preterite indicative form of vetar.

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