majority — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

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

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

   Synonyme

   absolute majority

   Antonyme

   minority

   Beispiele

   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.

   Weitere Beispiele (3)

   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.

2. Any share or fraction that is bigger than any one of its counterpart shares or fractions (of the same whole).

   Gebrauch

   • broadly
   • zählbar
   • wenig gebräuchlich
   • nicht zählbar

3. 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.

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

   Beispiele

   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%.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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.

4. Legal adulthood, age of majority.

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • veraltend
   • nicht zählbar

   Beispiele

   By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.

5. The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.

   Gebrauch

   • britischer Gebrauch
   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

   Beispiele

   On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.

   He was a captain before he went to the front, and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine-guns.

6. Ancestors; ancestry.

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • nicht zählbar

   Beispiele

   Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny.

Substantiv

1. the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part

   Synonyme

   bulk

   Antonyme

   minority

   Oberbegriffe

   numberfigure

   Beispiele

   the majority of his customers prefer it

   the bulk of the work is finished

2. (elections) more than half of the votes

   Synonyme

   absolute majority

   Oberbegriffe

   relative quantity

3. the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs

   Synonyme

   legal age

   Antonyme

   minority

   Oberbegriffe

   ageeld