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单词 outvote
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outvotev.

Brit. /ˌaʊtˈvəʊt/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈvoʊt/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, vote v.
Etymology: < out- prefix + vote v.
transitive. To obtain more votes than; to defeat by or as by a majority of votes.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > give (a vote) [verb (transitive)] > vote against > defeat by a majority of votes
overvote1641
outvote1647
waive1659
downvote1876
1647 H. More Philos. Poems Pref. sig. B4 The sense of the soul will be changed, & being outvoted as it were by the overswaying number of terrene particles.
1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry iii. ix. 107 A contest between the women and the men, wherein the females did out-vote the males, and carried it for Minerva against Neptune.
1715 D. Defoe Hymn to the Mob 32 The Reason of the Case is known, For those we can Out-vote we ne're Knock down.
a1785 J. Hall-Stevenson Pastoral Puke in Wks. (1785) I. 164 You'll be out-talk'd, and far out-voted, If you will talk in their own strain.
1848 Biblical Repertory Apr. 315 They like to assert their rights, and to outvote the more religious members of the community.
1895 S. F. Smith Poems ii. 116 Their right is to promote us From bachelors to men, To excel us with the pen, But never to outvote us.
1949 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 57 80/1 Suppose that..Russia and her allies had been outvoting us consistently on every important question.
2002 Jakarta Post (Nexis) 8 Aug. The commercial court's bankruptcy ruling was made after his client—who was the presiding judge—was outvoted by the other two judges.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

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