override

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If the override is approved, construction is expected to begin April 21.

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  1. transitive verb To ride across.
  2. transitive verb To ride beyond.
  3. transitive verb To trample on.

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  • Aside from the Iowa ruling and the Vermont veto override, a little noticed advance last week is going to push the issue right in front of Congress and that is DC's passing a statute which extends marriage recognition to couples married in other jurisdictions and a promise by the city's Council to grant full equality by this summer. —  Gay/Lesbian Forum
  • AddUndoItem override is the same as the second, except that it assumes that the method that will be invoked to do undo / redo operations only require a single parameter rather than a list of them. —  The Code Project Latest Articles
  • Even when the governor vetoes a bill early enough in a session to allow a vote to override, the Legislature rarely decides to vote on that issue. —  Lone Star Times
  • If the Legislature believes that a bill may be vetoed and a sufficient majority wants the opportunity to override, then it should enact the bill early enough in the session to allow that vote to be taken. —  Lone Star Times
  • If the override is approved, construction is expected to begin April 21. —  The Daily News Transcript Homepage RSS
 

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  1. from Middle English overriden (= Dutch overrijden = German überreiten = Danish override); from over + ride.
 

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/oʊvərˈraɪd/
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