Majorities is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MAJORITIES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• MAJORITY, 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 greater number
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the greater number or part

Words related to MAJORITIES

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Words that contain MAJORITIES

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How to use MAJORITIES in a sentence

• The whites seem bent on revolution to prevent the force and effect of Negro majorities.
• The facts were well known, and in each case an attempt was made by a few public-spirited voters to split the party vote, but both candidates were successful by large majorities.
• Borden, who finds the troops with provisions, in favor of the opposition, and have beaten our men by small majorities.
• Under a free government of majorities, such as ours, rebellion is simply the resistance of a minority.
• The Bill was thrown out in three successive years by immense majorities.
• Among these, however, were some reasonable and liberal men, who enabled us, on some points, to obtain feeble majorities.
• But his exertions this time were scarcely needed, for Lord North himself, and other ministers gave the bill their warmest support, and it passed the commons by large majorities.
• Other motions hostile to Sandwich were made in both houses, but they were all lost by majorities of nearly two to one.
• With these additions the bill was carried through the commons in all its stages by considerable majorities.
• The address was carried, and several resolutions afterwards moved against the armament were rejected by large majorities.
• This menace had the effect of bringing over the country gentlemen to vote with the cabinet as heretofore, and the motions for inquiry were lost by large majorities.
• In the commons the bill was also carried, and by large majorities.
• Large majorities in every case defeated the half measures of Lord John.
• Gladstone offered an unworthy party opposition to almost every item of the budget, but they were defeated by very large majorities.
• It is not, Sir, one would think, for those who approve these proceedings to complain of the power of majorities.
• On the contrary, that very Congress passed a bill for erecting a bank, by very large majorities.
• They have chosen to secure the institutions which they establish against the sudden impulses of mere majorities.
• It was their great conservative principle, in constituting forms of government, that they should secure what they had established against hasty changes by simple majorities.
• All the members had been re-elected at the last city election, though some of them by small majorities.
• Inertia is something really to be overcome, and one is often surprised to find how obstinate majorities can be.
• In a case of clear and manifest error on the part of the President the presumption of the Constitution is that such majorities will be found.
• In a few states, only the same majorities are required to pass a bill against the veto as in the first instance.
• Alterations may be made by like majorities of two successive legislatures.
• Bills are passed over the veto by majorities of two-thirds.

Similar words containing MAJORITIE without suffix s

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