liberum veto (English, noun)
expansion: liberum veto
Senses:
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: A parliamentary rule in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, allowing any dissenting member of the legislature to force an immediate end to the current session and nullify any legislation that had already been passed.
tags: historical
glosses: Any system in which a single dissenting member can unilaterally block an action.
tags: broadly
Forms: