<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.</li><li>The exercise of this right.</li><li>A document exercising such right and setting forth the reasons for such action.</li><li>A nonconcurring vote by which one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council can overrule the actions or decisions of the meeting on matters other than procedural.</li><li>An emphatic prohibition of any sort.</li><li>Pocket veto.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To reject (a proposed bill or enactment) by exercising a veto.</li><li>To prohibit emphatically.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>