Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.
A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content, distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
An invocation of that right.
A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
To use a veto against.