veto

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈviːtəʊ/    美 /ˈvi.toʊ/|[ˈviɾoʊ]|/ˈviˌtoʊ/|[ˈviˌtʰoʊ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
  2. 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.
  3. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
    — This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.
  4. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To use a veto against. transitive
    — The president vetoed the bill.
  2. To countermand. transitive
    — Mom and Dad vetoed our menu preferences for the holiday meal.

词形变化

vetoes plural vetos plural vetoes present,singular,third-person vetoing participle,present vetoed participle,past vetoed past

词汇关系

衍生词
heckler's veto liberum veto line-item veto pocket veto veto pen

词源

词源 1
From Latin vetō (“to forbid”).
词源 2
From Latin vetō (“to forbid”).
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