proscribeformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to forbid someone or something
forbidHe grew up in a strict household where dating was forbidden.
disallowUpon review, the goal was disallowed.
banThe government has banned the sale of lead-based paint.
prohibitVehicles are prohibited from parking on the grass.
The president has the power to veto the imposition of sanctions.
Managers vetoed proposals for a shorter working week.
My father vetoed our plans for a trip to Turkey.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forbidding and banning things
abolish
abolition
abolitionist
anti-censorship
ban
debar someone from something/doing something
decertification
decertify
deny something to someone
disallow
non-valid
off-limits
out of boundsidiom
outlaw
prohibit
unapproved
unauthorized
unkosher
unsanctioned
verboten

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Refusing & rejecting

veto | American Dictionary

veto
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈvi·t̬oʊ/pluralvetoes
politics & government
the power to refuse to allow something to be done, or such a refusal:
[ C ]The president has promised a veto if Congress passes that bill.
[ U ]The mayor will have no veto over zoning.
veto
verb[ T ]
us/ˈvi·t̬oʊ/present tensevetoes | present participlevetoing | past tense and past participlevetoed
politics & government
to refuse to allow something to be done:
The governor said she would veto the bill unless certain parts were changed.
Cory wanted to drive the car, but her mom vetoed it.

veto | Business English

veto
noun[ C ]
 GOVERNMENT, POLITICSuk /ˈviːtəʊ/uspluralvetoes
an official power or right to refuse to accept or allow something even if most of the other people or organizations involved approve of it:
have/use/threaten a vetoThe British government could use its veto to block the proposal.
A two-thirds majority of the Senate would be needed to override the governor's veto of the bill.
The permanent members of the Security Council all have veto powers.
presidential veto
the power/right of veto
veto
verb[ T ]
 GOVERNMENT, POLITICSuk /ˈviːtəʊ/usvetoed | vetoed | vetoing
to refuse to allow or accept something such as a vote even if most of the other people or organizations involved approve of it:
veto a bill/deal/planThe President vetoed a bill that would have provided the program with an additional $35 billion over five years.
The bid was vetoed by European competition authorities.

Examples of veto

veto
However, if the feasible set is empty, legislative action is not politically feasible since any proposal will be vetoed.
Note that, for the president, vetoing the prime minister's proposed cabinet is not a costless or inconsequential course of action.
Legislation and regulation may be subject to higher-order rules (for example, constitutional rules, presidential vetoes, and international law).
Any of these vetoes would have raised the constitutional crisis to a higher level.
If the sceptic acts irrationally when vetoing the religious affirmation of others, he is for the same reasons acting irrationally when vetoing his own belief.
Three items - welfare reform, middle-class tax cuts and tort reform - passed both chambers only to be vetoed.
The president incurs this cost whenever he vetoes a prime ministerial cabinet proposal.
The first respect in which the agreement departs from consociational theory relates to group vetoes.
There should be no question of vetoing these arrangements.
A president may be given authority in the constitution to react to legislative attempts to change prevailing policy, for instance, by vetoing the bill.
At that point, however, the executive vetoed the measure, arguing that it might be perceived as anti-immigrant.
A dam may be approved by the water agency, only to be vetoed by the environmental agency that finds it in violation of environmental law.
The reforms might have been vetoed by interests that feared that they would lose out from the changes, but were not.
Since the federation's policies were vetoed, the central government, as well as the cantons, began to subsidise the social security programmes of these private carriers.
Only one out of seven such doubleedged proposals was vetoed by the people (table 3).
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