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Vetoed vs Vetted - What's the difference?

vetoed | vetted |

As verbs the difference between vetoed and vetted

is that vetoed is past tense of veto while vetted is past tense of vet.

As an adjective vetted is

of or pertaining to an investigation, especially one that has been completed.

vetoed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (veto)
  • Anagrams

    *

    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

    * ----

    vetted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (vet)
  • Adjective

    (head)
  • Of or pertaining to an investigation, especially one that has been completed.
  • Only vetted nominees make it to committee hearings.