Veto

(ve'to.) L [., I forbid.] (Antiq.) The important and solemn word which the tribunes or the Roman people made use of when they inhibited any decree of the senate, or law proposed to the people, or any act of other magistrates. The bare pronouncing of the word veto was sufficient to suspend the busine without any reasons a igned for their di ent.-(Pol.) A term including the refusal of the executive officer whose a ent is nece ary to perfect a law which has been pa ed by the legislative body, and the me age which is usually sent,stating such refusal and the reasons therefor. By the constitution of the United States government, the President has the power to prevent the enactment of any law, by refusing to sign the same after its pa age, unle it be subsequently enacted by a vote of two thirds of each house. [s. 937]