veto

veto is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes.
4. noun. A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.
5. transitive verb. To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.
6. noun. a vote that blocks a decision
7. noun. the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)
8. verb. command against

   "I forbid you to call me late at night"

   "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"

   Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe

9. verb. vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

   "The President vetoed the bill"

   Synonyms: blackball, negative

Synonyms

disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, blackball, negative

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in veto:

voet, vote

Common word forms

vetoed, vetoer, vetoes, vetoing

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for VETO lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.