Majority

/məˈd͡ʒɒ.ɹɪti/ · noun

Meaning

More than half (50%) of some group..

Definitions by Sense

1. More than half (50%) of some group.
2. In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined.
3. (dated) Legal adulthood, age of majority.
4. (UK) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
5. Ancestors; ancestry.

Example Sentences

The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.

Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.

The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.

But in 1912 the American people gave the Democrats another opportunity, and under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson we swept the country from sea to sea. At the end of that historic contest we had the Presidency, the Senate by a working majority, and the House by an overwhelming majority.

They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement.

The ruling party had a narrow three-seat majority in the legislature.

The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.

Now, there is talk of Democrats potentially being locked out of a Senate majority for a time to come because of trends in the electorate. […] This shouldn’t be surprising. As political analyst Sean Trende posited in the book “The Lost Majority,” history is filled with examples of majorities falling apart and the parties coming in and out of power.

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