| 词汇 | outvoting |
| 释义 | outvoting present participle ofoutvote outvote verb[ Tusually passive ] uk /ˌaʊtˈvəʊt/ us /ˌaʊtˈvoʊt/ to defeat someone by winning a greater number of votes: 得票超过，以多数票胜过 The Democrats were outvoted, as usual.和往常一样，民主党因得票少而被击败。 informalI suggested that we go out for a pizza, but I was outvoted (= most people did not want to).我建议去吃比萨饼，但没几个人赞成。 Elections absentee absentee ballot absentee vote absentee voter absentee voting enfranchisement entrance poll exit poll first-past-the-post flip proportional representation proxy proxy vote proxy voter proxy voting vote something through voting voting booth voting machine voting slip Examples of outvotingoutvoting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. We might consider the possibility of taking a golden share in the 100 largest companies in the country and outvoting everyone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I had no chance of outvoting anybody else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no question of a majority outvoting a minority. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the 11 are voting to impose their social costs upon themselves, subsidiarity will not prevent them from outvoting the 12th to ensure that we bear the same burden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With the villages outvoting the towns by two to one, no particular local interest predominated. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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