rubber stamp vs veto

rubber stamp

noun
  • A person or organisation that approves, routinely or as a formality, matters decided by some other person or organisation. 

  • A piece of rubber or similar material with a design or text carved or molded for the purpose of transferring ink or dye to imprint that design on another object. 

adj
  • Of a person, organisation, or process, making decisions or approving matters routinely or without real power. 

verb
  • To process, approve or decide matters routinely rather than through careful consideration. 

veto

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. 

verb
  • To use a veto against. 

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