landslide vote
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- noun
- Literature
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voto abrumador
- After an extensive campaign, the mayor was re-elected in a landslide vote that left no doubt about public approval.
Examples
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What can keep it from becoming a repeated performance later is for the electorate to, in return, give Romney such a huge landslide vote in November that the backfire itself teaches a strong lesson to the Chicago Thug-In-Chief!
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The same-sex marriage bill passed in a landslide vote, with 400 members in favor and only 175 against.
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In the recent election, the candidate secured a landslide vote, demonstrating overwhelming support from the community.
Synonyms
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A very large win in an election by one candidate or party
Antonyms
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a vote in which one side wins by an overwhelming majority' is directly derivable from combining 'landslide' (an overwhelming victory) with 'vote' (an electoral tally). This is a straightforward compositional noun–noun phrase and mirrors common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Landslide vote comes from the image of a landslide, a huge flow of earth that sweeps everything away. So when one side wins by a very large number of votes, people call it a landslide vote, meaning 'to win by a very large number of votes'.