'Pocket veto' definitions:
Definition of 'pocket veto'
(from WordNet)
noun
Indirect veto of legislation by refusing to sign it
Definition of 'Pocket veto'
From: GCIDE
- Pocket veto \Pocket veto\ The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the following constitutional provision (--Const. Art. I., sec. 7, cl. 2): "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law." Also, an analogous retention of a bill by a State governor. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]