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Veto vs Rescind - What's the difference?

veto | rescind |

As a noun veto

is vet (profession).

As a verb rescind is

to repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.

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

    * ----

    rescind

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
  • The agency will rescind the policy because many people are dissatisfied with it.

    Synonyms

    * annul * cancel * repeal

    Anagrams

    * *