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Definition of Majority
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Majority
The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. The military rank of a major. The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs. The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast. Ancestors; ancestry. The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality. Related Definitions:
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Majority Quotations
One with the law is a majority. Calvin Coolidge One man with courage is a majority. Thomas Jefferson Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson As for our majority... one is enough. Benjamin Disraeli |
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Majority Translations
majority in Dutch is meerderheid, meerderjarigheid majority in German is Mehrheit majority in Italian is maggioranza majority in Portuguese is maioria majority in Swedish is majoritet, flertal |
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