pocket veto

1. 1.

   indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it

   Broaderveto

Questions about pocket veto

What does pocket veto mean?

pocket veto means "indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it".

Is pocket veto a common word?

pocket veto is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.