veto
suomi-englanti sanakirjaveto englanniksi
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
An invocation of that right.
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An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
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A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a positive in a scientific experiment.
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- An outer detector (OD) region will act as both a passive shield for low energy backgrounds and an active veto for cosmic ray muons.
To use a veto against.
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(quote-web)|passage=Perhaps more notably, they also expect 25 percent of all Spac acquisitions to be vetoed by shareholders in 2008 — which will force those Spacs to liquidate.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20241211115744/https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/a-pullback-for-spacs/
To countermand.
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(ca-verb form of)
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pull (gloss)
stroke (gloss)
move, as in a game or similar
winding (gloss)
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traction (gloss)
drive (gloss)
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trace (gloss)
draught (gl)
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to advise not to
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draft, transportation (gloss)