Blackball vs Veto - What's the difference?
blackball | veto |
A rejection, a vote against admitting someone.
A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
the act of so rejecting someone.
A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
*1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
*:Why, if I had known you all my life I should have grown up in the condition of Adam before the fall, and they would have blackballed me at the clubs.
To ostracize.
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
An invocation of that right.
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
* George Eliot
To use a against.
As nouns the difference between blackball and veto
is that blackball is a rejection, a vote against admitting someone while veto is vet (profession).As a verb blackball
is to vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.blackball
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(wikipedia veto)Noun
(en-noun)- This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.