Majority is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MAJORITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the greater number
• the number by which the votes cast for one party or candidate exceed those for the next
• a party or group receiving the greater number of votes.
• the number by which votes for one candidate are more than those for all other candidates together.
• the age at which a person is legally a full adult, usually either 18 or 21
• the rank or office of a major.
• The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
• The military rank of a major.
• The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one\'s own affairs.
• The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
• Ancestors; ancestry.
• The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality.
• the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
• (elections) more than half of the votes
• the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs
• greater number
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the greater number or part

Words related to MAJORITY

majorities19

Words that contain MAJORITY

supermajority27

How to use MAJORITY in a sentence

• In March, 1765, the bill was passed by an immense majority.
• It must be remembered that the Arians were in an overwhelming majority in the city, and occupied the principal churches.
• Some few of the women were a little nervous, but the majority had thoroughly fallen in with the general feeling and were enthusiastic in the extreme.
• It is quite idle to expect skill, courage, or common sense from the great majority of drivers.
• That the fact that the majority of women do not wish for the right or privilege to vote is not a reason for depriving the minority of an inborn right.
• The men of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who achieved the independence of South Carolina did not stop to consider whether a majority of her white inhabitants were Tories.
• In this way he surrounded them with his whole force, cut down the majority, and made terms with the survivors.
• The great majority of the Socialist-Revolutionists rallied to the support of the Allied cause.
• I am not, however, afraid of such censure, insignificant as probably the majority of those poems would appear to very respectable persons.
• As compared with the majority of his neighbors, he was a man of learning who had seen the world.
• By the majority we were clearly regarded as a sulky young couple who would not go through their tricks.
• Upon a division, the bill was rejected by a majority of sixty-one against thirty-two.
• Tierney moved the abolition of the office of secretary of state for the department of war and the colonies, which was lost by a great majority.
• The bill was read a third time on the 8th of July, by a majority of two hundred and ninety-seven against ninety-four.
• On a division the clause was carried by a majority of two hundred and seventy-eight against two hundred and thirty-two.
• The bill was thrown out by a considerable majority.
• In those days the farmers constituted a majority of the House.
• But the majority of women had no idea that their existence should be of any especial interest to them.
• It struck a majority of the committee at once, that there were several fortifications on the coast, either not provided for at all, or not adequately provided for, by this bill.
• But, notwithstanding the number and importance of the majority, it was not destined to be unanimous.
• Thus securing a majority to be on your side in the general administration of the school is absolutely indispensable to success.
• It is more nutritious than the majority of fruits, and in tropical countries is highly valued as a food, affording in some localities the chief alimentary support of the people.
• Here he left Tonty with the majority of the party, while he himself started with five men back to Niagara.
• In doing this I regret that I am not able to give my assent to an act which has received the sanction of the majority of both Houses of Congress.
• Next to a sound and able majority, the great need of a free country is a vigorous, vigilant, audacious, numerous minority.
• Nearly all the leaders who are professional men have abandoned them, on the ground that a majority is not in favor of their constitution.
• Bribery, whether by titles, offices, or cash, had always been the normal means of securing a Government majority in the Irish House of Commons.
• To these men a majority of the citizens have relinquished the business of public service.

Similar words containing MAJOR without suffix ity

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