📖 Определения и значения для слова majority
📒 the largest part of a group of people or things
- majority (of somebody/something) The majority of people interviewed prefer TV to radio.
- The majority was/were in favour of banning smoking.
- This treatment is not available in the vast majority of hospitals.
📒 the number of votes by which one political party wins an election; the number of votes by which one side in a discussion, etc. wins
- by/with a majority of something She was elected by a majority of 749.
- The resolution was carried by a huge majority.
- majority over somebody They had a large majority over their nearest rivals.
📒 the difference between the number of votes given to the candidate who wins the election and the total number of votes of all the other candidates
- Without this shift, Kerry would have had a popular majority of a million votes.
📒 the age at which you are legally considered to be an adult
- The age of majority in Britain was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1970.