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VETOED

Definition: VETOED

VETOED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Veto

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VETOED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)



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Crosswords: VETOED

English words defined with "VETOED": unwillingness. (references)
Specialty definitions using "VETOED": Oppositionscepter. (references)

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Photo Album: VETOED

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The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a lawy by Congress. Support Congress & you support the Negro Sustain the President & you protect the white man.Credit: Library of Congress.

The cruel uncle and the vetoed babes in the wood.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: VETOED

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Nicaragua

He vetoed 30 of the 50 articles contained in the proposed law. (references)

Nicaragua

The remaining 20 articles were either contradictory or meaningless, as they related to the vetoed articles. (references)

Nicaragua

The President stated that he vetoed the provisions to correct the law's many contradictions, to prevent its violation of the Constitution, and to protect freedom of the press. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

Legislation cannot be vetoed by the executive nor reviewed for constitutionality by the judiciary, but all laws (except the budget) can be reviewed by popular referendum before taking effect. (references)

China

In 1991 and 1992, Congress voted to place conditions on normal trade status renewal for China, but those conditions were vetoed by the Bush Administration, which stressed the importance of the U.S. relationship with China and the belief that normal trade status was not the correct tool to exert pressure on China and would only result in isolating it. (references)

Human Rights

Hungary

During the year, the Committee vetoed a government proposal to amend the law on religions, which would have placed restrictions on the establishment of religious groups. (references)

Political Economy

POLAND

Value-Added Tax (VAT) rates were also revised to meet EU rules, but a companion bill to reduce and simplify personal income taxes was vetoed by the president. (references)

Political Rights

Mongolia

Constitutional amendments meant to address these questions were passed by the Parliament in 2000 but vetoed by the President. (references)

Kuwait

However, in November 1999, the Parliament vetoed the Amir's May decree, based in part on the Amir having bypassed the Assembly by introducing the change while the Assembly was not in session and in part on traditionalist resistance to women's suffrage. (references)

Trade

Russia

In 1997, a bill attempting to harmonize tax holidays and other concessions for FEZs across Russia passed parliament only to be vetoed by the president. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: VETOED

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001I vetoed such a proposal last year, and I would veto it again.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: VETOED

"VETOED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 51.05% of the time. "VETOED" is used about 143 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)51.05%7339,105
Lexical Verb (past tense)47.55%6840,606
Adjective (general or positive)1.4%2245,945
                    Total100.00%143N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VETOED

Language Translations for "VETOED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

käytti veto-oikeuttaan (exercised the veto). (various references)

   

German

  

verbot (ban, banned, forbade, forbiddance, forbiddingness, interdict, interdicted, interdiction, prohibition, proscribed, proscription, to debar from binding customs duties by international agreements), widersprochen (contradicted, dissented). (various references)

   

Italian

  

divieto (ban, closure, forbade, forbiddingness, inhibition, interdiction, prohibition). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhiettit (detained, inhibited, stayed), lhiettalit (discouraged, inhibited, restricted, stayed), crost (intersected, thwarted). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etoedvay

   

Spanish

  

entredicho (forbade, forbiddingness, injunction, prohibition). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: VETOED

Misspellings

"VETOED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bvetmed, detoxed, Evteev, veote, veted, vetoa, vetode, vetoe, vetoer, Vipond. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: VETOED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: devote.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-o-t-v"

-1 letter: voted.

-2 letters: deet, dote, dove, teed, toed, veto, vote.

-3 letters: dee, dev, doe, dot, eve, ode, ted, tee, tod, toe, vee, vet, voe.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, et, od, oe, to.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-o-t-v"
 

+1 letter: coveted, devoted, devotee, devotes, revoted.

 

+2 letters: denotive, devotees, devouter, dovecote, foveated, obverted, overedit, revolted, vectored, videotex.

 

+3 letters: bevomited, convected, convented, converted, devotedly, devoutest, dovecotes, outserved, overacted, overedits, overhated, overrated, overtaxed, overtimed, overtired, overtrade, overtured, overvoted, renovated, stevedore, videotape, videotext.

 

+4 letters: coinvented, covenanted, decorative, denotative, derogative, detonative, devotement, devoutness, dovetailed, evaporated, outdeliver, overbetted, overcasted, overdirect, overedited, overemoted, overextend, overheated, overhunted, overmelted, overmodest, oversalted, overstated, overstayed, overstride, overstrode, overtalked, overtasked, overtipped, overtoiled, overtopped, overtraded, overtrades, overturned, overwetted, sovietized, stevedored, stevedores, turtledove, videotaped, videotapes, videotexes, videotexts.

 

+5 letters: contravened, deformative, denervation, development, devotedness, devotements, divorcement, equivocated, extroverted, introverted, inventoried, outachieved, outdelivers, overcounted, overdirects, overediting, overeducate, overexcited, overexerted, overextends, overlighted, overmatched, overnighted, overplanted, overplotted, overprinted, overreacted, overstaffed, overstepped, overstirred, overstocked, overstrewed, overstrides, overstuffed, overtrained, overtreated, overtrimmed, overtrumped, overwatered, reconverted, reconvicted, remotivated, stevedoring, turtledoves, unconverted, vociferated, volunteered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: VETOED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 45 54 4F 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .    -    ---    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01000101 01010100 01001111 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#69 &#84 &#79 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0045 0054 004F 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

563954493938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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