Prohibit vs Veto - What's the difference?
prohibit | veto |
To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
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An invocation of that right.
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
* George Eliot
To use a against.
As a verb prohibit
is to forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.As a noun veto is
vet (profession).prohibit
English
Verb
(en verb)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited , yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
Synonyms
* forbid * disallow * ban * See alsoAntonyms
* allow * authorizeSee also
* interdict * debar * prevent * hinderExternal links
* * English transitive verbs ----veto
English
(wikipedia veto)Noun
(en-noun)- This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.
