Usually means: Authority to reject a decision.
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  1. veto: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. veto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. veto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. veto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. veto: Vocabulary.com
  6. Veto, veto: Wordnik
  7. veto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. veto: Wiktionary
  9. veto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. veto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. veto: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. veto: Dictionary.com
  13. veto (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. veto: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. VETO (band), Veto (album), Veto (band), Veto (disambiguation), Veto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Veto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. veto: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. veto: Rhymezone
  19. Veto (nt), veto, veto, veto, veto (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. veto: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. VETO: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Veto: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Veto: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. veto: Free Dictionary
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  1. veto: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
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  4. Veto: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
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Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  1. veto: Urban Dictionary

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  1. veto: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL

(Note: See vetoed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
noun:  An invocation of that right.
noun:  An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
noun:  A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.
verb:  (transitive) To use a veto against.
verb:  (transitive) To countermand.

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