majority

IPA: mʌdʒˈɔrʌti

noun

  • More than half (50%) of some group.
  • The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes.
  • (dated) Legal adulthood, age of majority.
  • (UK) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
  • Ancestors; ancestry.
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Examples of "majority" in Sentences

  • It's the tyranny of the majority.
  • It encompasses the majority of the article.
  • They were dissentient from the opinion of the majority.
  • A pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority.
  • The biologist are the majority and the majority is not always right.
  • The current system stinks and the voice of the majority is again ignored.
  • I also think the majority of the editors are unprofessional and opinionated.
  • The term majority of our cash, we probably should have said almost all of our cash.
  • Obama the majority is against you gay rights movement, QUIT trying to change the world.
  • To imply the majority is against health care reform generally is a PR tactic and disingenious.
  • Umm, just make that every country in human history other than the U.S., the land where the majority is always right.
  • Thus, a majority is all the Constitution requires to make rules, to set precedents, and to operate no a day-to-day basis.
  • The control by the majority is the principle on which our government should rest, but upon which it does not, at present.
  • "The proletarian movement is the _self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority in the interests of the immense majority_."
  • If he feels the majority is agsainst this and it may cost him his job, then the reason he will loose his job is because he didn't do his job!
  • Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. has returned to the fold, giving the Democrats a 32-30 majority in the state Sen.te-again-and taking the title majority leader.

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