"vet" = to consider

[Doug_Harris]

Yeah, I, too, have noticed how that word, common in
Britain, has been creeping into the American lexicon.
And like queue, which similarly began showing up more
frequently a few years ago, 'vet' has been defined
only by assumption -- as per how it's used. Better, at
that, than golfing terms (such as bogey, birdie and
the like) that as used mean nothing to non golfers.
dh
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Subject: "vet" = to consider

Something or other reported by Fox News "proves that Hilary Clinton was
never seriously vetted for the Vice-Presidential spot."

Clinton has frequently been described, with more semantic accuracy, as the
"most thoroughly vetted" of any current politician.

JL

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