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Outvote for Dummies

verb

pronunciation: ,aʊt'voʊt

What does Outvote really mean?

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Outvote means that when a group of people needs to make a decision together or choose between different options, the majority of them favor one option over the others. So, if you are in a group of five friends and three of them want to watch a movie, but the other two prefer playing outside, the majority of three would outvote the minority of two, and the decision would be to watch the movie.

Now, imagine you are in a class of 30 students and your teacher asks if you would like to have a pizza party or a picnic as a reward for your hard work. Everyone gets to vote, and after counting all the votes, it turns out that 25 students prefer to have a pizza party, while only 5 students like the idea of a picnic. In this case, the majority of students outvote the smaller group, and the decision would be to have a pizza party.

So, basically, when you outvote someone, it means that more people are in favor of a specific option, and that option will be chosen because it has more votes.

Revised and Fact checked by Nicole Thomas on 2023-10-29 15:11:41

Outvote In a sentece

Learn how to use Outvote inside a sentece

  • In our class of 20 students, if 11 students vote for pizza and only 9 students vote for hamburgers, the majority wins and the pizza lovers outvote the hamburger fans.
  • During recess, when we decide on which game to play, if 8 students vote to play tag and only 4 students vote to play hide-and-seek, the tag players outvote the hide-and-seek players.
  • In a group of friends deciding on a movie to watch, if 6 friends want to watch an action movie and 5 friends want to watch a comedy movie, the action movie fans outvote the comedy movie fans.
  • When a class is voting for their class representative, if 15 students vote for Sarah and 10 students vote for John, Sarah gets chosen because she outvotes John.
  • In a family deciding on which restaurant to go for dinner, if 3 family members want to go to a Chinese restaurant and 2 family members want to go to an Italian restaurant, the Chinese restaurant supporters outvote the Italian restaurant supporters.

Outvote Hypernyms

Words that are more generic than the original word.