LekhoriLekhoriA political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
An invocation of that right.
I called Haig in and told him that I wanted to veto the agricultural appropriations bill we had discussed in the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, because I did not want Ford to have to do it on his first day as President. Haig brought the veto statement in, and I signed it. It was the last piece of legislation I acted on as President.
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.
From Latin vetō (“I forbid”).
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