0 to defeat someone by winning a greater number of votes: --
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: --
You would have a large number of people who would be elected, and who would outvote the ratepayer who provided the money.
I suspect that they would have been outvoted.
We might consider the possibility of taking a golden share in the 100 largest companies in the country and outvoting everyone.
On occasion, we may well be outvoted, as other countries may disagree with our view of how to resolve a problem.
But what is the scope of the matters in respect of which we or any other nation may be outvoted in the future?
In a democracy with universal suffrage they can, of course, always be outvoted.
He cannot do so because he is creating his own precedent, in which those taking the risk in terms of equity capital can be outvoted.
There may be times when they hold one view, the pressing of which, they realise, would mean merely their being outvoted.
