Usually means: Power to reject individual provisions.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. line-item veto: Merriam-Webster
  2. line-item veto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. line-item veto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. line-item veto: Wiktionary
  5. line-item veto: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. line-item veto: Dictionary.com
  7. Line-item veto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. line-item veto: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. line-item veto: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (line-item veto)

noun:  The power of an executive in government to nullify or cancel specific provisions of a bill, usually budget appropriations, without vetoing the entire legislative package.

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