pocket veto

noun

: a method that the President can use to prevent a bill from becoming a law by not signing the bill before the session of Congress ends

Full Definition of POCKET VETO

: an indirect veto of a legislative bill by an executive through retention of the bill unsigned until after adjournment of the legislature

— pocket veto transitive verb

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1842

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