1 if a company, country, or group of people is outvoted by another, they do not achieve what they want because the other company, country, or group of people votes for something in larger numbers than they do:
The essential point is that within a dyad, there can be no majority which could outvote the individual.
Or, given the great rural biases in legislative apportionment well into the twentieth century, rural and suburban legislators could simply outvote even a determined and united big-city delegation.
As you will have seen, those who sometimes regard themselves as such are subsequently outvoted here in plenary.
This also means that it cannot be outvoted by others.
It will be the driver's word against the passenger's—and, if there is more than one passenger, the driver will be outvoted.
It will not be easy for three members out of eight to outvote the other five.
At the same time, however, he stated to me that he had been outvoted by his colleagues.
There may be times when they hold one view, the pressing of which, they realise, would mean merely their being outvoted.
