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veto power

/vee-toh/US // ˈvi toʊ //

否决权,否定权,反对权

Related Words

ban禁止,禁令,禁忌,取缔denial否认,拒绝,拒绝承认,拒绝接受embargo禁运,封锁,禁运令prohibition禁令,禁止,禁忌,禁制deny否定,否认,拒绝,拒绝承认refuse拒绝,拒收,拒绝接受,拒不接受reject拒绝,拒绝接受,拒收,驳回rule out排除,摒弃,排斥,摒除turn down驳回,拒绝,掉头向下,掉头blackball黑球,黑球术,黑色球,丸子declination偏角,倾角,偏角仪,偏转角interdict拦截,阻断,拦阻,阻截interdiction拦截,阻截,停职,拦截行动negative负面的,负面,负的,否定burn燃烧,烧毁,烧伤,焚烧cut切,切割,削减,割decline衰退,减少,衰落,下降defeat挫败,打败,失败,挫折disallow不允许,不容许,不允许使用,不允许有disapprove不赞成,不赞同,不认可,不同意

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ve·toes.Also called veto power .

    • : the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
    • : the exercise of this right.
    • : Also called veto message. a document exercising such right and setting forth the reasons for such action.
    • : a nonconcurring vote by which one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council can overrule the actions or decisions of the meeting on matters other than procedural.
    • : an emphatic prohibition of any sort.
    • : pocket veto.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ve·toed, ve·to·ing.

    • : to reject by exercising a veto.
    • : to prohibit emphatically.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
clincher凝固器,凝固剂,凝固者,凝固的dernier cri冬天来了,冬天的故事,冬天到了,冬天final say最后发言权,最后的发言权,最后的决定权,最后决定权point well taken言之有理,说得好,说的好,说得很好valid point有效的观点,正确的观点,有效观点,有效的意见

Examples

  • From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.

  • And the fact that satire unnerves the intolerant is evidence of its positive power.

  • Would the Democrats rescind those rights if they were to return to power?

  • Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds.

  • What it endangers is a narrow conception of Russian power, understood through the eyes of its dictatorial leader.

  • For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.

  • Wharton smiled at this littleness in so great a man, but determined that he should feel the power he despised.

  • He brings out all their power, brilliancy and careering wildness, and makes the greatest sensation of them.

  • She knew that she alone of all human beings was gifted with the power to understand and fully sympathize with him.

  • We live in an age that is at best about a century and a half old—the age of machinery and power.

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