outvote
IPA: aʊtvˈoʊt
verb
- To cast more votes than another
- To defeat another by obtaining more votes
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Examples of "outvote" in Sentences
- Purslow, Ayre and the chairman, Martin Broughton? who can outvote Hicks and Gillett, clearly approved the release of the statement.
- There are makers, takers, and fakers, and right now, the latter two outnumber (and outvote and outlobby) the makers by a large margin.
- Governments are hoping other ECB members will outvote Mr. Weidmann—especially if they are confident the German government supports the move.
- The Senate functions on unanimous consent: any Senator can object to anything, and require that the majority either outvote him, or buy him off.
- Forced savings is a reluctant compromise position, because people who believe that Americans are too stupid to save properly outvote us at present.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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