Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To outdo in voting.
- transitive verb To defeat (an opponent or proposal, for example) in voting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exceed in the number of votes given; defeat by greater number of votes; outnumber.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To cast more
votes than another - verb To
defeat another by obtaining more votes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb defeat by a majority of votes
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word outvote.
Examples
-
Mr. Dodik argues that his first responsibility is to the people who elected him in Republika Srpska, who feel that any move to a centralized state threatens them because Bosnian Muslims will always have a majority to outvote them — the reason why the Dayton accord created such an unwieldy polity in the first place.
Bosnian Serb Leader Damps Hopes of Post-Vote Accord Marc Champion 2010
-
Polls in the past month have shown consistently that Mr. Sarkozy may not even make it to the election run-off, with International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Front National leader Marine Le Pen poised to outvote him in the first round.
Sarkozy Set to Run for Re-election Gabriele Parussini 2011
-
Forced savings is a reluctant compromise position, because people who believe that Americans are too stupid to save properly outvote us at present.
Social Security Incrementalism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
-
Governments are hoping other ECB members will outvote Mr. Weidmann—especially if they are confident the German government supports the move.
Europe's Leaders Pursue New Pact Marcus Walker 2011
-
Forced savings is a reluctant compromise position, because people who believe that Americans are too stupid to save properly outvote us at present.
Social Security Incrementalism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
-
There are makers, takers, and fakers, and right now, the latter two outnumber (and outvote and outlobby) the makers by a large margin.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog 2010
-
At any time when the Democrats had anywhere from 34 up through 67 Senators present and voting their way, the nominees could be confirmed, e.g., at 4 am tomorrow morning when 40 Democrats are around to outvote 18 Republicans.
-
The Senate functions on unanimous consent: any Senator can object to anything, and require that the majority either outvote him, or buy him off.
Matthew Yglesias » Longstanding Problems Are Still Problematic 2010
-
Purslow, Ayre and the chairman, Martin Broughton? who can outvote Hicks and Gillett, clearly approved the release of the statement.
Liverpool civil war erupts as owners reject two buyers David Conn 2010
-
A Mexican judge recently ruled that the company can consider its own subsidiaries as creditors, allowing them to outvote the actual investors who bought the company's bonds.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.