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Election vs Veto - What's the difference?

election | veto |

As nouns the difference between election and veto

is that election is election while veto is vet (profession).

election

English

(Election)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors or other representatives by popular vote.
    • The parliamentary elections will be held in March.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.}}
  • The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
    • The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
  • (archaic) Any conscious choice.
  • *, II.20:
    • Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election .
  • * Francis Bacon
    • To use men with much difference and election is good.
  • (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
  • (obsolete) Those who are elected.
  • * Bible, Rom. xi. 7
    • The election hath obtained it.

    Related terms

    * elect, elective, elector, electoral, electorate

    Derived terms

    * by-election * election theft * electioneer * electioneering * election of remedies * general election * primary election

    Synonyms

    * (theology) chosenness

    See also

    * psephology

    See also

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    veto

    English

    (wikipedia veto)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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
    • This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To use a against.

    • Anagrams

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