Usually means: President indirectly vetoes by inaction.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. pocket veto: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pocket veto: Merriam-Webster
  3. pocket veto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pocket veto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pocket veto: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pocket veto: Vocabulary.com
  7. pocket veto: Wordnik
  8. pocket veto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pocket veto: Wiktionary
  10. pocket veto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pocket veto: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pocket-veto, pocket veto: Dictionary.com
  13. Pocket veto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pocket veto: Rhymezone
  15. pocket veto: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pocket veto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pocket-veto, pocket veto: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pocket veto: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. pocket veto: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pocket veto: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pocket_vetoing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pocket veto)

noun:  (US) A (de facto) veto of a bill by the US President by restricting Congressional action on the bill, as, figuratively, by carrying the bill in his pocket until the deadline for signing it has passed.

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