Similar words: vote, voter, vote in, devote, devoted, devotee, straw vote, swing voter. Meaning: v. defeat by a majority of votes.
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1. They walked out in protest after being outvoted by the National Salvation Front majority.
2. Britain was heavily outvoted on the issue.
3. Twice his colleagues have outvoted him.
4. We objected strongly but were outvoted.
5. The Democrats were outvoted, as usual.
6. His proposal was outvoted by 10 votes to 8.
7. France was outvoted on that issue.
8. The measure was outvoted.
9. Waddington's proposal was outvoted in the Senate.
10. They feared that the numerous poor might outvote the few rich.
11. The way to outvote them was to double the number of people who held to the old ways.
12. Outvoted, they left the congregation in 1825 and formed the Reformed Society of Israelites.
13. If the Bill is outvoted, we are faced with dire prospects.
14. On 12 November he was out-voted in his own Commission and the document was sent to the printer.
15. Richard and David tried to get the question put on the agenda but they were heavily outvoted.
16. The Government bowed to the inevitable after other countries threatened to outvote it.
17. I was not prepared to agree that Britain could be outvoted on any substantive issue of foreign policy.
18. When the matter was discussed in council, the local mayor, Bernard Berche, was outvoted and planning permission refused.sentencedict.com
19. But with 'one country one vote', African, Arab or Asian countries, or indeed Europeans voting en bloc, can easily outvote the United States.
20. African, Arab or Asian countries, or indeed Europeans voting en bloc, can easily outvote the United States.