vote down
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vote down (third-person singular simple present votes down, present participle voting down, simple past and past participle voted down)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To defeat (some measure or candidate) by a majority vote.
- His wife voted down the project the moment he suggested it.
- 2022 November 16, “Clause on disability access voted down in Parliament”, in RAIL, number 970, page 8:
- However, Conservative MP Lee Rowley argued the Bill was the 'wrong vehicle' for the matter, and the amendment was voted down at committee stage.
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defeat by a majority vote
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