单词 | outvoting |
释义 | outvotingn. The action of outvote v.In quot. 1817 perhaps: the practice of voting in a constituency in which one is not permanently resident (cf. out-voter n.). ΚΠ 1817 W. Whewell Let. 6 Mar. in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 15 The..system of electioneering, canvassing, voting, contravoting, and outvoting, which predominates here. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 2/1 The out-voting of the Boers by the industrial and urban settlers. 1944 A. Brecht Prelude to Silence 132 No such local outvoting of extremists was possible under the German proportional system. 1992 C. S. Maier in J. Dunn Democracy viii. 132 John C. Calhoun envisaged with deep gloom the continued outvoting of the Southern slave states in the United States Congress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1817 |
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