The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word VETO
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More clues leading to the result VETO
- Turn down a little love token
- Reject some love tokens
- Thoroughly inspect old block
- Don’t allow surgeon to take lead in operation
- 14 having zero power to stop
- Forgot ever holding back reject
- Examine old reject
- Confused vote delivering presidential power
- Don’t allow fraudulent vote!
- Volume increase at the end almost closed bar
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The straight part
We know that "bar" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bar = veto.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does VETO mean?
VETO noun- A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
- An invocation of that right.
- An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
- To use a veto against.