vote out

1. 1.

   thwart the passage of

   “kill a motion”

   “he shot down the student's proposal”

   Synonymskillshoot downdefeatvote down

   Broaderveto

Questions about vote out

What does vote out mean?

vote out means "thwart the passage of".

What is another word for vote out?

Close synonyms include kill, shoot down, defeat, vote down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vote out a common word?

vote out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.