Majority

Definition

majority / mǝ'dʒɒrǝti; US -'dʒↄ:r- / n ၁။ the majority [Gp] အမ်ားစု။ The majority of people prefer TV to radio. ❍ The majority was/were in favour of the proposal. ❍ in the vast majority of cases ❍ majority opinion/rule ❍ It was a majority decision (ie decided by what most people wanted). ❍ Those who favour the proposed changes are in the majority. Compare MINORITY ၂။ [C] ~ ( over sb ) (က) ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ကို အသာရေသာ မဲ အေရအတြက္။ She was elected by a majority of 749. ❍ They had a large majority over the other party at the last election. ❍ The government does not have an overall majority (ie a majority over all other parties together). (ခ) ( US ) ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္သူအားလံုးထက္ ပိုရေသာ မဲ အေရအတြက္။ See also PLURALITY ၂ ၃။ [U] အရြယ္ ေရာက္သည့္ အသက္။ The age of majority in Britain was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1970. ❏ majority verdict n ( law ) ဂ်ဴရီလူႀကီး အမ်ား စု၏ အဆံုးအျဖတ္။

Examples

1. His job is to represent the views of the majority.
2. [majority of] : The majority of our employees are women.
3. [the vast majority] : The vast majority had never travelled outside the United States.
4. [be in the majority] : Young women are in the majority in the fashion industry.
5. [the majority opinion/view] : The majority view is that the bombing campaign is justified.
6. [a majority decision/verdict] : We have to accept the majority decision.
7. They look like securing another overwhelming majority.
8. [an overall majority] : Reynolds won with an overall majority of 60 per cent.
9. The age of majority