Minority

Definition

minority /maÇ'nɒrǝti; US -'nↄ:r- / n ၁။ [CGp] အနည္းစု။ လူနည္းစု။ 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] (လူမ်ဳိး၊ ဘာသာ၊ ဘာသာစကား စသည္အရ) လူနည္းစု။ the rights of ethnic/racial minorities ❍ belong to a minority group. Compare MAJORITY ၁ ၃။ [U] ( law ) အရြယ္ေရာက္ျခင္း။ ❏ (find oneself, be, etc) in a minority of one [ IDM ] ( often joc ) တစ္ဦးတည္းေသာ (ေထာက္ခံသူ၊ ကန္႔ကြက္သူ) ၏ အျဖစ္။ ❏ minority government n [C, U] အျခား ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီ အားလံုး၏ စုစုေပါင္းအမတ္ဦးေရေအာက္ အမတ္ဦးေရရိွေသာ အစိုးရ။

Examples

1. There are not many
2. a tiny minority
3. who have misbehaved outrageously.
4. [minority of] : In a small minority of cases
5. the treatment does not help.
6. The regulations are intended to prevent discrimination against minorities.
7. Members of ethnic minorities are represented on the committee.
8. A religious minority
9. As minorities
10. we need to work together.