veto

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n. 否决权 vt. 否决, 禁止

发音

UK /ˈviːtəʊ/
其它
US /ˈvi.toʊ/
US /ˈviɾoʊ/
US /ˈviˌtoʊ/
US /ˈviˌtʰoʊ/

词形变化

vetoes 复数 vetoes vetos vetos 复数 vetoed vetoes 三单 vetoing vetoing 现在分词 vetoed 过去式 vetoed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

    否决权

  2. 2.

    An invocation of that right.

    否决

  3. 3.

    An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

  4. 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.

v.
  1. 1.

    To use a veto against.

    及物

    The president vetoed the bill.

  2. 2.

    To countermand.

    及物

    Mom and Dad vetoed our menu preferences for the holiday meal.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 6

power vote voting ballot balloting powerfulness

下位词 1

pocket veto
动词

同义词 8

negative forbid nix prohibit interdict proscribe disallow blackball

上位词 5

command require oppose contradict controvert

下位词 10

kill bar defeat ban outlaw exclude criminalise criminalize debar enjoin

相关短语

veto pen veto pens heckler's veto pocket veto 搁置否决权 line-item veto [美国英语]单项条款否决权 liberum veto [法] 自由否决权

词源

From Latin vetō (“to forbid”).

来源：wiktionary