majority : Idioms & Phrases
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absolute majority
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noun (elections) more than half of the votes
majority.
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majority leader
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noun leader of the majority party in a legislature
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majority operation
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noun a threshold operation in which each operand is 0 or 1; output is 1 if and only if more than half the operands have the value 1
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majority opinion
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noun the opinion joined by a majority of the court (generally known simply as `the opinion')
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majority rule
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noun the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
democracy.
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relative majority
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noun (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)
plurality.
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To go over to, ∨ To join , the majority
- to die.
