Translate steamroller | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of steamroller
noun
a heavy, slow-moving vehicle with a roller, used to flatten the surfaces of roads during construction: after each truckload of earth fell, a steamroller flattened it an oppressive and relentless power or force:victims of an ideological steamroller
verb
[with object] (of a government or other authority) forcibly pass (a measure) by restricting debate or otherwise overriding opposition:the government’s trying to steamroller a law through force (someone) into doing or accepting something:an attempt to steamroller the country into political reforms
