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: --
We should not sit back gently and be steamrollered; we are bigger and more important than that.
We normally understand the word "streamlining" in that context as meaning being steamrollered.
I do not believe, however, that teachers will allow themselves to be steamrollered in this fashion.
It is not fair to suggest that this proposal has been steamrollered through without the mining industry being aware of the situation.
That procedure means only that, perhaps late at night, a major change will be brought forward and be steamrollered through without discussion.
Too often planners are steamrollered into developments which exploit cheaper waterside land and result in nothing but slabs of wall facing the waterway.
To suggest that we have not given time to authorities, that we have steamrollered or are rushing this through is an arrant piece of nonsense.
He said that he had not space in the hangars, and he steamrollered the lot.
