Veto vs Overrule - What's the difference?
veto | overrule |
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.
To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
# To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
* Clarendon
To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
(legal) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.
1.
to rule against or disallow the arguments of (a person):
The senator was overruled by the committee chairman.
2.
to rule or decide against (a plea, argument, etc.); reject:
to overrule an objection.
3.
to prevail over so as to change the purpose or action:
a delay that overruled our plans.
4.
to exercise control or influence over:
belief in a beneficent deity that overrules the universe.
Overrule is a synonym of veto.
In transitive terms the difference between veto and overrule
is that veto is to use a veto against while overrule is to nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.As a noun veto
is a political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.veto
English
(wikipedia veto)Noun
(en-noun)- This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.
Verb
(es)Anagrams
* ----overrule
English
Verb
(en-verb)- His passion and animosity overruled his conscience.
- The line judge signalled the ball was in, but this was overruled by the umpire.