green light vs veto

green light

noun
  • Approval, or permission to proceed. 

  • A go-ahead to commit a crime, specifically to carry out a hit on someone (i.e. to kill). 

  • A traffic light in its green state (indicating that vehicles may proceed). 

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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