decree vs veto

decree

noun
  • An edict or law. 

  • The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate. 

  • A predetermination made by God; an act of providence. 

  • The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity. 

verb
  • To command by a decree. 

veto

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • To use a veto against. 

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