go-ahead vs veto

go-ahead

noun
  • Approval, agreement, or instruction to begin or proceed. 

adj
  • Progressive; exerting leadership. 

  • Being a score which gives the scoring team or player the lead in the game. 

  • Dashing; energetic. 

veto

verb
  • To use a veto against. 

noun
  • An invocation of that right. 

  • A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment 

  • A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc. 

  • An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. 

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