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majority
noun (NUMBER) /məˈdʒɒr.ə.ti/
/-ˈdʒɑː.rə.t̬i/ Definition
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B2 [S] the larger number or part of something: The majority of the employees have university degrees. A large majority of people approve of the death sentence. In Britain women are in the/a majority. → Compare minorityMaximum and minimum › [C] in an election, the difference in the number of votes between the winning person or group and the one that comes second: The Socialists won by a narrow/large majority.Elections
(Definition of majority noun (NUMBER) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- (at) full stretch idiom
- -most suffix
- at least idiom
- bare adjective (BASIC)
- ceiling noun (LIMIT)
- credit limit noun
- critical mass noun
- full adjective (GREATEST POSSIBLE)
- mass noun (LARGE AMOUNT)
- max adjective
- max noun
- maximal adjective
- maximum adjective
- maximum noun
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