outvote
/aʊtˈvəʊt
/verb [with object]
Defeat by gaining more votes: the constituency party delegates were outvoted by the trade union delegates...
- It seems unlikely that simply being outvoted would deflect them from their path.
- You only have to outvote, outspend or outshout them.
- The use of qualified majority voting in the Council was an obvious constraint: any individual government might be outvoted.
