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vetoed

/vee-toh/US // ˈvi toʊ //UK // (ˈviːtəʊ) //

被否决,被否决的,被否决了,否决了

Related Words

ban禁止,禁令,禁忌,取缔embargo禁运,封锁,禁运令denial否认,拒绝,拒绝承认,拒绝接受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rule out排除,摒弃,排斥,摒除turn down驳回,拒绝,掉头向下,掉头reject拒绝,拒绝接受,拒收,驳回interdiction拦截,阻截,停职,拦截行动interdict拦截,阻断,拦阻,阻截blackball黑球,黑球术,黑色球,丸子negative负面的,负面,负的,否定declination偏角,倾角,偏角仪,偏转角prohibit禁止,禁制,违禁,不准cut切,切割,削减,割burn燃烧,烧毁,烧伤,焚烧disapprove不赞成,不赞同,不认可,不同意forbid禁止,严禁,不准,禁止使用discountenance折扣,贴现,折扣优惠,打折

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

adj.rejected
Synonyms
declined衰落的,衰落,下降的,下降disapproved不予批准,不批准,不赞成,不赞同refused被拒绝,拒绝,被拒绝的,被拒

Examples

  • If Democrats win a supermajority in the state Senate, they will have total veto power over the state’s projected 26 congressional districts.

  • When even that wasn’t enough to get support, she pushed forward anyway, yet lacked the votes to overcome a mayoral veto.

  • This specter was an unmistakable motivating factor for so-called “court-packing” by conservatives to cement a kind of veto power against policy gains for LGBTQ people and other long-ignored communities.

  • I had that conversation with him, and it was pretty clear … so I knew that I needed to have six Council members to override that veto.

  • Even in the absence of the filibuster, the American political system is thick with veto points and clashing institutions.

  • I had chosen a seat by the window, but Poitras vetoed the location.

  • The New Jersey governor vetoed a ban on a rarely used cruel practice for pregnant pigs.

  • President Obama has vetoed only three bills, an historic low.

  • President G.W. Bush vetoed 12, Bill Clinton 27, George H.W, Bush 44, Ronald Reagan 78.

  • Consider how First Lady Michelle Obama vetoed pantyhose and made bare legs OK for the rest of us.

  • “Flood”—Cleveland vetoed an unprecedented number of bills during his term.

  • In order to protect the slave trade benefits for England, the Governor vetoed this proposal.

  • I think a few recommended England, but this was promptly vetoed because England was at war and the channel was choked with mines.

  • He had fully intended to interview the Admiral, but now he was somewhat relieved to find that Dacres had vetoed the proposal.

  • For example, President Madison vetoed the first internal improvement bill.

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