0 past simple and past participle of steamroller
1 to use great force either to make someone do something or on something to make it happen or be successful:
These provisions are to be steamrollered through without adequate discussion.
We have now been told that we are so short of that precious commodity, time, that our debate has to be steamrollered.
By that undemocratic procedure, the measure was steamrollered through.
I must protest that a series of technical amendments is being steamrollered through.
By virtue of being moderate and trying to encourage some restraint, we shall be steamrollered.
Instead, they steamrollered the decision through and imposed it on areas that did not want it.
The report has been pro- duced by the "rolling chairmen", and no doubt their proposals could be steamrollered into effect.
He said that he had not space in the hangars, and he steamrollered the lot.
