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majority

Meaning

  1. More than half (50%) of some group.
  2. 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.
  3. Legal adulthood, age of majority.
  4. The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
  5. Ancestors; ancestry.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/məˈd͡ʒɒɹɪti/

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