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单词 outvote
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Definition of outvote in English:

outvote

verb aʊtˈvəʊtˌaʊtˈvoʊt
[with object]
  • Defeat by gaining more votes.

    比…得票数多

    the constituency party delegates were outvoted by the trade union delegates
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Germany argued that despite its 80 million population it could be easily outvoted by the 54 votes of Poland and Spain, whose combined population is also 80 million.
    • The meeting turned to farce as Conservatives staged a walkout, having been outvoted on their amendments to the budget.
    • The committee Democrats were simply outvoted on the rules change.
    • At party congresses, the revisionists, who argued for a reconciliation with the existing social order, were regularly outvoted.
    • It seems unlikely that simply being outvoted would deflect them from their path.
    • If you don't do something now, you're going to be outnumbered and outvoted in your own country.
    • The race would be tight every month, I should imagine, with Republicans and Democrats trying to outvote each other.
    • For the Democrats, being outvoted means they are living in a police state.
    • I may be outvoted on that, but at least I will have had the chance to stand up for people who do not get a voice in the workplace.
    • He demurs, is outflanked and outvoted and finally gives grudging agreement to the match.
    • So district councillors, through the casting vote of the chairman, could outvote all other members.
    • Ministers on the council must answer to their national constituencies, but they can easily claim to have been outvoted in Brussels.
    • If the present rules were retained, the entry of many relatively smaller and economically weak countries would either paralyse the EU completely, or the smaller countries could outvote the larger ones.
    • You only have to outvote, outspend or outshout them.
    • He didn't believe the argument but got outvoted, he said.
    • Therefore, the large countries must be given greater influence and be able to outvote a minority of countries by majority decisions.
    • Most of the power stays with the member states, although their representatives can find themselves outvoted on a wider range of issues.
    • Students often feel that their voice really doesn't matter and that they'll be outvoted in matters of municipal politics anyway.
    • She, apparently, also has noticed that I am hopelessly outnumbered and outvoted.
    • The use of qualified majority voting in the Council was an obvious constraint: any individual government might be outvoted.
    Synonyms
    reject, overthrow, throw out, dismiss, spurn, rebuff, turn down

Rhymes

afloat, bloat, boat, capote, coat, connote, cote, dote, emote, float, gloat, goat, groat, misquote, moat, mote, note, oat, promote, quote, rote, shoat, smote, stoat, Succoth, table d'hôte, Terre Haute, throat, tote, vote, wrote

Definition of outvote in US English:

outvote

verbˌoutˈvōtˌaʊtˈvoʊt
[with object]
  • Defeat by tallying a greater number of votes.

    the constituency party delegates were outvoted by the trade union delegates
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The use of qualified majority voting in the Council was an obvious constraint: any individual government might be outvoted.
    • It seems unlikely that simply being outvoted would deflect them from their path.
    • So district councillors, through the casting vote of the chairman, could outvote all other members.
    • She, apparently, also has noticed that I am hopelessly outnumbered and outvoted.
    • Ministers on the council must answer to their national constituencies, but they can easily claim to have been outvoted in Brussels.
    • Germany argued that despite its 80 million population it could be easily outvoted by the 54 votes of Poland and Spain, whose combined population is also 80 million.
    • He demurs, is outflanked and outvoted and finally gives grudging agreement to the match.
    • If you don't do something now, you're going to be outnumbered and outvoted in your own country.
    • At party congresses, the revisionists, who argued for a reconciliation with the existing social order, were regularly outvoted.
    • He didn't believe the argument but got outvoted, he said.
    • I may be outvoted on that, but at least I will have had the chance to stand up for people who do not get a voice in the workplace.
    • Therefore, the large countries must be given greater influence and be able to outvote a minority of countries by majority decisions.
    • The committee Democrats were simply outvoted on the rules change.
    • For the Democrats, being outvoted means they are living in a police state.
    • Students often feel that their voice really doesn't matter and that they'll be outvoted in matters of municipal politics anyway.
    • If the present rules were retained, the entry of many relatively smaller and economically weak countries would either paralyse the EU completely, or the smaller countries could outvote the larger ones.
    • The race would be tight every month, I should imagine, with Republicans and Democrats trying to outvote each other.
    • Most of the power stays with the member states, although their representatives can find themselves outvoted on a wider range of issues.
    • The meeting turned to farce as Conservatives staged a walkout, having been outvoted on their amendments to the budget.
    • You only have to outvote, outspend or outshout them.
    Synonyms
    reject, overthrow, throw out, dismiss, spurn, rebuff, turn down
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