Usually means: Authority to reject a decision.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. veto: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. veto: Merriam-Webster
  3. veto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. veto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. veto: Collins English Dictionary
  6. veto: Vocabulary.com
  7. Veto, veto: Wordnik
  8. veto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. veto: Wiktionary
  10. veto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. veto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. veto: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. veto: Dictionary.com
  14. veto (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. veto: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. VETO (band), Veto (album), Veto (band), Veto (disambiguation), Veto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Veto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. veto: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. veto: Rhymezone
  20. Veto (nt), veto, veto, veto, veto (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. veto: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. VETO: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Veto: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  24. Veto: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. veto: FreeDictionary.org
  26. veto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. veto: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. veto: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. veto: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Veto: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  6. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  7. veto: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. veto: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. veto: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. VETO: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  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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