VETOES

Definition: VETOES

VETOES

Plural

1. Of Veto

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "VETOES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Presidential Vetoes and Public Policy (Studies in Government and Public Policy) (reference) Votes and Vetoes in the UN General Assembly (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Finland	It may alter the constitution, bring about the resignation of the Council of State, and override presidential vetoes; its acts are not subject to judicial review. (references)
Political Economy	Ukraine	The Verkhovna Rada can override presidential vetoes by a two-thirds vote. (references)
	Poland	According to the new Constitution, Presidential vetoes can be overturned by a three-fifths vote in the Sejm. (references)
Political Rights	Moldova	The Communist Party therefore gained sufficient votes in Parliament to elect the president, pass laws, overturn presidential vetoes, and change the Constitution. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"VETOES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "VETOES" is used about 14 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	78.57%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (-s form)	21.43%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	14	N/A

Language		Translations for "VETOES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		否决 (blue-pencil, Overrule, Overruled, Overruling, Veto). (various references)

German		verbietet (forbids, interdicts, prohibits, proscribes), widerspricht (contradicts, dissents), Einspruchsrechte. (various references)

Korean		거부권 (Veto). (various references)

Pig Latin		etoesvay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"VETOES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: detoxes, Evteev, veote, vetoa, vetoe, vetoer, vetos, Vettius, vetus, vitose. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "VETOES" (pronounced vē"tōz)
4	-ē" t ō z	mosquitoes, mosquitos.
3	-t ō z	Altos, autos, concertos, contos, ghettos, mementos, mottos, potatoes, stilettos, tomatoes.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-o-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: stove, votes.
	-2 letters: eves, tees, toes, vees, vest, veto, vets, voes, vote.
	-3 letters: eve, oes, ose, see, set, sot, tee, toe, vee, vet, voe.
	-4 letters: es, et, oe, os, so, to.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-o-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: devotes, overset, revotes, vetoers.
	+2 letters: coveters, devotees, estovers, evertors, evolutes, loveseat, outserve, overbets, overeats, overlets, oversets, overstep, overwets, restrove, veloutes, vortexes, voteless.
	+3 letters: corvettes, coverlets, devoutest, dovecotes, elevators, evections, foveolets, leftovers, levatores, loveliest, loveseats, movements, nonevents, novelties, ostensive, outserved, outserves, overbeats, overbites, overedits, overhates, overheats, overmelts, overrates, overslept, overspent, overstate, oversteer, oversteps, overstrew, oversweet, overtakes, overtaxes, overtimes, overtires, overtness, overtones, overtures, overvotes, ovotestes, poverties, renovates, resolvent, revolters, sovietize, stevedore, stovepipe, takeovers, trouveres, trueloves, twelvemos, vertigoes, votresses.
	+4 letters: congestive, converters, covellites, covertness, covertures, devoutness, elevations, evaporates, evaporites, expositive, extroverts, feverworts, gravestone, meatloaves, motiveless, novelettes, objectives, olivenites, operatives, overassert, overcasted, overeaters, overemotes, overexerts, overmaster, overmodest, overreacts, oversalted, overstated, overstates, overstayed, oversteers, overstress, overstrewn, overstrews, overstride, overstrike, overstrode, oversubtle, overtasked, overtrades, overtreats, overwaters, overwrites, perovskite, protensive, reconverts, resolvents, resorptive, revelators, sovietized, sovietizes, stevedored, stevedores, stovepipes, strikeover, television, velocities, venerators, venosities, ventricose, videotapes, videotexes, videotexts, viscometer, vitreouses, voltmeters, volumeters, volunteers, votaresses, votiveness, whatsoever.
	+5 letters: coacervates, coevalities, coextensive, collectives, connectives, consecutive, contravenes, convexities, correctives, costiveness, covenantees, covenanters, devotedness, devotements, earthmovers, emotivities, enervations, enterovirus, equivocates, erosivities, evolvements, governments, gravestones, hypotensive, insectivore, intervenors, inventories, longevities, nervosities, nonveterans, novelettish, ostensively, outachieves, outdelivers, overasserts, overdirects, overearnest, overexcites, overextends, overharvest, overintense, overmantels, overmasters, overmatches, overreports, oversetting, overstaffed, overstepped, overstirred, overstocked, overstories, overstretch, overstrewed, overstrides, overstrikes, overstuffed, oversweeten, overtnesses, overweights, overwinters, pejoratives, perovskites, personative, prepositive, preventions, prospective, remotivates, reservation, restorative, revelations, slovenliest, solventless, sovereignty, stevedoring, strikeovers, televisions, travelogues, turtledoves, unloveliest, variometers, vasectomies, vasectomize, vegetations, venerations, venesection, venturesome, verbosities, viscometers, vociferates.
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