单词 | pocket-veto |
释义 | pocket-vetov. U.S. Politics. transitive. To retain (a legislative bill) unsigned, so as to prevent it becoming law; to use a pocket veto on. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > prohibit [verb (transitive)] > veto > legislative or political measures > indirectly pocket1838 pocket-veto1887 1887 Los Angeles Times 5 Mar. 4/4 (headline) The President pocket-vetoes the river and harbor appropriation. 1922 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 16 104 Of a total of 339 bills not accepted by the city, 292, or 86.13 per cent, were pocket vetoed by the city. 1957 D. E. Fehrenbacher Chicago Giant iv. 56 Even a modest rivers-and-harbors bill was this time pocket-vetoed by the president. 1998 S. Fried Bitter Pills iii. xvi. 275 She said she was worried that I wanted a baby more than I had expressed, and that if the issue was simply pocket-vetoed by the passing of time and opportunity, we might regret it. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1887 |
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