0 a vehicle that moves forward on a large, heavy wheel in order to make a road surface flat --
1 a person who forces other people to agree with them and prevents any opposition --
2 to use great force either to make someone do something or on something to make it happen or be successful: --
3 a vehicle whose wheels are large, heavy cylinders that roll over a road surface to make it flat --
4 to use great force to make someone do something or to make (something) happen: --
5 a large, heavy machine that rolls over the surface of a new road to make it flat --
They have been steamrollered into a scheme, which in other circumstances they might have looked at twice, on the assurance that they would not lose anything.
I am bothered by big businesses steamrollering little businesses.
There was a caucus deciding matters, pushing them through the council in a very short time and steamrollering any opposition.
Not only residents but business people say that policies that they do not want are being steamrollered through.
The small states are steamrollered and bullied by the bigger states.
The fact that he has resisted the temptation to suggest that the other place should be steamrollered reflects great credit on him.
In spite of the concerns expressed, we were steamrollered, and civilian courts will be used.
I was initially tempted down the route of steamrollers or even rollercoasters—both in their own ways appropriate.