Look up: Majority

1. majority
   [Noun] Plural form: majorities. More than half of a group of people or things.
   Example: The majority of people in the UK have a telephone at home.
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2. majority
   [n] - the age at which a person is considered competent to manage their own affairs 2. [n] - (in an election) more than half of the votes 3. [n] - the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts
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3. majority
   a logic element that performs a majority operation Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a circuit of central clock producing clock signals when at least two of the incoming signals are in phase Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and compute...
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4. Majority
   Ma·jor'i·ty noun ; plural Majorities . [ French majorité . See Major .] 1. The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. Specifically: (a) The military rank of a major. (b) The ...
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5. majority
   noun the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; `the majority of his customers prefer it`; `the bulk of the work is finished`
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6. majority
   legal age noun the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
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7. majority
   absolute majority noun (elections) more than half of the votes
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8. Majority
   • (n.) The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. • (n.) The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one`s own affairs. • (n.) Ancestors; ancestry. • (n.) The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with wh...
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9. majority
   majority 1. The greater part or number; the number larger than half the total (opposed to minority): the majority of the population. 2. A number of voters or votes, jurors, or others in agreement, constituting more than half of the total number. 3. The amount by which the greater number, as of vote...
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10. Majority
    The state or condition of a person who has arrived at full age. He is then said to be a major, in opposition to minor, which is his condition during infancy. The age at which a person is entitled to most legal rights and obligations. In most states, the age of majority is 18, although some rights or...
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11. Majority
    (n) Majority is the stage or position by which a person or a group of person attains or acquires the capability or a right to perform a legally binding Act. An individual become competent to do a legally binding Act when he attains certain age limit. A majority holding of right legitimate a person to do functions binding the group.
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12. majority
    n. 1) the age when a person can exercise all normal legal rights, including contracting and voting. It is 18 for most purposes, but there are rights such as drinking alcoholic beverages which is set at 21. 2) 50 percent, plus one of votes cast.
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13. Majority
    In law, majority was the period of full age, at which the laws of a country permited a young person to manage his own affairs. In Britain, as well as in most other countnies the age of majority was formerly twenty-one years, in Britain it is now eighteen years.
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14. Majority
    A `majority` is a subset of a group consisting of more than half of its members. This can be compared to a title=Simple majority-->--> and a `supermajority` is a stronger majority than a simple majority. Example: Here, Memphis has a plurality (42%) of the first preferences, but not a majority. We ca...
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