outvoted
投票で負かされた
解説 Definition
投票で多数に負かされた状態を表します。人や陣営、提案の支持者などが、採決で相手側より少ない票しか得られなかった場合に使います。
If someone is outvoted, they lose a decision because more people voted against their choice than for it. It is used in groups, meetings, committees, or elections where decisions are made by voting. As an adjective, it describes the person or side that did not get enough support.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
まず vote が「投票する」。そこに out- が付くと「数で上回る」で、outnumber と同じ感覚です。つまり outvoted は「相手に票数で上回られた」。勝敗一般の defeated ではなく、会議や委員会で採決の結果負けた場面に寄りやすい語です。be outvoted on the proposal, get outvoted by the majority の形で、「多数決で押し切られた」場面と結びつけて覚えると残ります。
Start with `vote`, then add `out-`, which often means "more than" or "better than." So `outvoted` means someone else had more votes than you. Remember it in meeting language such as `be outvoted on a proposal`.
例文
The proposal's supporters were outvoted at the meeting.
その提案の支持者たちは会議で票決に敗れた。
He was outvoted 3 to 1 on the committee.
彼は委員会で3対1で票決に敗れた。
The motion's supporters were outvoted 5 to 2 in the assembly.
その動議の支持者たちは議会で5対2で票決に敗れた。
outvoted の類義語・関連語
派生語
outvoted の語源・成り立ち Etymology
outvotedはout-「上回って」+vote+ -edです。voteはラテン語votum「誓願・願い」に由来し、vowやdevoteと親類で、「より多くの意思表示を集められた結果、投票で負けた」という意味が形そのままに表れています。
Outvoted is made from out- + vote + -ed. Vote comes through Latin votum, meaning "vow" or "wish," and it is related to vow and devote. The sense moved from expressing a formal wish or promise to casting a vote, and then to being defeated by a greater number of votes.
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