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Veto vs Vetoist - What's the difference?

veto | vetoist |

As nouns the difference between veto and vetoist

is that veto is vet (profession) while vetoist is one who uses, or sustains the use of, the veto.

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

    * ----

    vetoist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who uses, or sustains the use of, the veto.
    • (Webster 1913)