Vē'to1, n.
n.; pl. VĒ'TOES. [Lat. veto, I forbid.] 1. Any authoritative prohibition; especially, the power possessed by the executive branch of a legislative body, as a king, president, governor, &c., to negative a bill which has passed the other branches of the legislature; also, the act of exercising this power. Bouvier. 2. Hence, any authoritative prohibition; a forbidding.