Definitions for pocket veto
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
pock′et ve`to(n.)
an automatic veto of a bill, occurring when Congress adjourns within the ten-day period allowed for presidential action on the bill and the president has retained it unsigned.
Category: Government
a similar action on the part of any legislative executive.
Category: Government
Origin of pocket veto:
1835–45, Amer.
Princeton's WordNet
pocket veto(noun)
indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it
Wiktionary
pocket veto(Noun)
A (de facto) veto of a bill by the US President by restricting Congressional action on the bill, as, figuratively, by carrying the bill in his pocket until the deadline for signing it has passed.
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