minority
/mʌɪˈnɒrɪti/
- Syllables
- 4 syllables
- Stress
- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
mʌɪ - ˈnɒrɪti -> minority
(n) အနည်းစု
minority /maÇ'nɒrǝti; US -'nↄ:r- / n
၁။ [CGp] အနည်းစု။ လူနည်းစု။ a minority opinion/point of view ❍ have a minority interest in a company ❍ Only a small minority of students is/are opposed to the scheme. ❍ A sizeable/significant minority voted against the motion. ❍ Men are generally in the minority at parent-teacher meetings.
၂။ [C] (လူမျိုး၊ ဘာသာ၊ ဘာသာစကား စသည်အရ) လူနည်းစု။ the rights of ethnic/racial minorities ❍ belong to a minority group. Compare MAJORITY ၁
၃။ [U] (law ) အရွယ်ရောက်ခြင်း။
❏ (find oneself, be, etc) in a minority of one [IDM ] (often joc ) တစ်ဦးတည်းသော (ထောက်ခံသူ၊ ကန့်ကွက်သူ) ၏ အဖြစ်။
❏ minority government n [C, U] အခြား နိုင်ငံရေးပါတီ အားလုံး၏ စုစုပေါင်းအမတ်ဦးရေအောက် အမတ်ဦးရေရှိသော အစိုးရ။
- There are not many, a tiny minority, who have misbehaved outrageously.
- [minority of] : In a small minority of cases, the treatment does not help.
- The regulations are intended to prevent discrimination against minorities.
- Members of ethnic minorities are represented on the committee.
- A religious minority
- As minorities, we need to work together.
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