Veto vs Reject - What's the difference?
veto | reject |
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 refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
Reject is a synonym of veto.
In transitive terms the difference between veto and reject
is that veto is to use a veto against while reject is to refuse to accept.veto
English
(wikipedia veto)Noun
(en-noun)- This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.
