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We have spotted VETO (4 Letters) a total of 36 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with VETO and also when and where was it last seen:
Definition
• | An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. |
• | A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power. |
• | The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes. |
• | A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message. |
• | To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill. |
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Kill as a bill
- President's rejection
- Overrule formally
- Governor's rejection
- Formally reject
- Nixon nix?
- Presidential thumbs down
- Nix
- Bill stopper
- Official refusal
- Presidential power
- Security Council nix
- White House power
- Oval Office override
- Presidential rejection
- Presidential turndown
Usage among publishers:
- Universal: Oct 10, 2024
- Newsday: Sep 16, 2024
- Newsday: Aug 22, 2024
- Newsday: Jul 14, 2024
- New York Times: Jul 10, 2024
- New York Times: May 9, 2024
- LA Times: Apr 1, 2024
- Universal: Feb 16, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Jan 25, 2024
- Newsday: Dec 20, 2023
- Wall Street Journal: Dec 4, 2023
- New York Times: Jul 5, 2023
- Thomas Joseph: May 16, 2023
- LA Times: Jan 17, 2023
- Newsday: Jan 10, 2023
- Newsday: Jan 4, 2023