majoritarian
majoritarian

majority


Definition: Meaning of, majority in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / məˈdʒɒrɪti /

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  1. most people or things [singular also + plural verb British English] British English most of the people or things in a group
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  2. most votes [countable] if one person or group wins a majority in an election, they win more votes than other people or groups
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  3. majority vote/decision/verdict etc a vote or decision in which more people vote for something than vote against it
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  4. majority stake/shareholding etc when one person or group owns a bigger share of a company than other people or groups and so is able to control what happens to the company
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  5. becoming an adult [uncountable] British English law the age when someone legally becomes an adult
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majority used in phrases

  • Moral Majority, the
    1. trademark a US Christian organization started in 1979 by the Rev. Jerry Falwell . The group's aim is to help politicians who support its RIGHT WING ideas on subjects such as ABORTION and the rights of HOMOSEXUAL s, and to actively oppose politicians who disagree with these ideas.
    2. a general name, especially in the US, for Christians who have strongly traditional ideas about sexual behaviour, the family etc, and who also tend to have right wing political ideas
  • absolute majority (noun)
    1. when a party or person wins more than half of the total votes in an election
  • majority leader (noun)
    1. the person who organizes the members of the political party that has the most people elected, in the US House of Representatives or Senate [↪  minority leader]
  • majority operation (noun)
    1. a threshold operation in which each operand is 0 or 1; output is 1 if and only if more than half the operands have the value 1
  • majority opinion (noun)
    1. generally known simply as 'the opinion' law the opinion joined by a majority of the court
  • majority rule (noun)
    1. a system of government in which every person in a country has the right to vote and the group which wins the most votes has power
  • moral majority (noun)
    1. the moral majority the group of people in a society who have strong moral beliefs and think they are always right. In the US there is an organized group called the Moral Majority, who have strong Christian principles
  • overall majority (noun)
    1. more votes than all the other political parties together
    2. the difference between the number of votes gained by the winning party and the total votes gained by all the other parties
  • relative majority (noun)
    1. but less than half of the votes in an election with more than 2 options the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number
  • silent majority (noun)
    1. the silent majority the ordinary people in a country, who are not active politically and who do not make their opinions known
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