minority
IPA: maɪnˈɔrʌti
noun
- The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.
- Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority.
- (US) A member of an ethnic minority.
- (sociology) A group of people seen as distinct who are subordinated and discriminated against in a society.
- (India, euphemistic) A Muslim.
adjective
- (relational, attributive) Of or relating to a minority.
- (attributive, politics, of a party, government, etc.) Empowered by or representing a minority (usually a plurality) of votes cast, legislative seats, etc., rather than an outright majority thereof.
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Examples of "minority" in Sentences
- I am by no means here to defend the term minority, minorities, or majorities.
- The San Diego City Council last month voted to strike the word minority from official use.
- March 26th, 2006 at 12:04 am blog, one of my readers said, “can we stop using the term minority now. it is obvious that whites are the minority.”
- So recently in the comments section of my blog, one of my readers said , “can we stop using the term minority now. it is obvious that whites are the minority.”
- I was a little sympathetic to the argument, but my definition of the term minority was much broader than the way my student was using it, and I used it in a much broader way then the term is used by the typical American.
- In sociology (and several other academic disciplines.) the term minority group(s), refers to any group that has less access to power; in other words any group that is underrepresented in the power structure of a country or culture.
- The term minority itself is far more likely to be applied to blacks and Asians than to Jews, even though in a worldwide sense Jews fit the definition far better, and even within the United States are far fewer in number than blacks.
- The powerful Socialist and revolutionary minority created in industrial communities by equal suffrage and a democratic form of government, _as long as it remains distinctly a minority_, is unable to injure the combined forces of capitalism, while it furnishes a useful and invaluable club by which the progressive capitalists can threaten and overwhelm the reactionaries.
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