Majority n. : The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.Majority n. : The military rank of a major.Majority n. : The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.Majority n. : The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.Majority n. : Ancestors; ancestry.Majority n. : 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.Example:Why do conservatives insist they are the Majority when they lost the white house and congress?Taxonomycast, simple majority, candidate, absolute majority, abstention, British English, free encyclopedia, football players, Search, subset, athletes, parliamentary procedure, club, election, entire group, majority vote, Double majority, plurality vote.Defination from the web:majority, see major. ... A plurality is not necessarily a majority, as the largest subset may be less than half of the entire group. ... The term overall majority is used in British English to refer to the difference between the number of ...
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