veto

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
2. isim An invocation of that right.

   “The failure on Wednesday to overturn Mr. Cooper’s veto was among the most dramatic consequences of Democratic legislative victories in North Carolina last November, which broke Republican supermajorities in both chambers and made it easier for Mr. Cooper’s vetos to survive.”

3. isim An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

   “This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.”

4. isim A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.

   “An outer detector (OD) region will act as both a passive shield for low energy backgrounds and an active veto for cosmic ray muons.”

5. fiil To use a veto against.

   “The president vetoed the bill.”

6. fiil To countermand.

   “Mom and Dad vetoed our menu preferences for the holiday meal.”