Let
Let verb - Consent to, give permission.
Usage example: I won't let the police search her basement
Nearby Word: letting
Veto
Veto verb - Command against.
Usage example: Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
Common collocations
| name | let name | veto name |
| time | let time | veto time |
| characters | let characters | veto characters |
Both words in one sentence
- Her confidence restored, Hachikatsugi passes the "contest" with flying colors, so the parents revoke the veto and let her marry her son.
Source: Parental Marriage Veto - Eventually, he just told Cam he hated it, and Cam suggested that he would let Mitchell veto the topper if Mitchell also gave him one more veto.
Source: Batman Gambit / Live-Action TV -
Parental Marriage Veto: Morten refuses to let Anders marry Anne—but when he finds out that Peter refused to let Anne marry Anders, he gets angry.
Source: Film / Ordet
Cite this Source
Veto and Let. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/let/veto
Let & Veto. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/let/veto>.
Veto or Let. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/let/veto.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "let" and "veto" have occurred on timeline