"vote down" meaning in English

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        {
          "text": "His wife voted down the project the moment he suggested it.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 16, “Clause on disability access voted down in Parliament”, in RAIL, number 970, page 8:",
          "text": "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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      "glosses": [
        "To defeat (some measure or candidate) by a majority vote."
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        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
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          "measure",
          "measure"
        ],
        [
          "candidate",
          "candidate"
        ],
        [
          "majority",
          "majority"
        ],
        [
          "vote",
          "vote"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive, idiomatic) To defeat (some measure or candidate) by a majority vote."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "defeat by a majority vote",
          "word": "否決"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fǒujué",
          "sense": "defeat by a majority vote",
          "word": "否决"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "defeat by a majority vote",
          "word": "preglasovati"
        }
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    },
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    },
    {
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        {
          "ref": "2022 November 16, “Clause on disability access voted down in Parliament”, in RAIL, number 970, page 8:",
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          "measure",
          "measure"
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        [
          "majority",
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          "vote",
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      ],
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "defeat by a majority vote",
      "word": "否決"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fǒujué",
      "sense": "defeat by a majority vote",
      "word": "否决"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "defeat by a majority vote",
      "word": "preglasovati"
    }
  ],
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