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Ratify vs Veto - What's the difference?

ratify | veto |

In transitive terms the difference between ratify and veto

is that ratify is to give formal consent to; make officially valid while veto is to use a veto against.

As a noun veto is

a political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

ratify

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To give formal consent to; make officially valid.
  • Synonyms

    * (give formal consent to): approve

    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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