majority

Các nghĩa

1. đa số · phần đông · số đông

   More than half (50%) of some group.

   countable · uncountable

   The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.

   Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled.

2. phần lớn hơn, đa số

   Any share or fraction that is bigger than any one of its counterpart shares or fractions (of the same whole).

   broadly · countable · uncommon · uncountable

3. đa số ghế, số phiếu chênh lệch

   In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined.

   countable · uncountable

   The ruling party had a narrow three-seat majority in the legislature.

   The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%.

4. chức thiếu tá

   The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.

   uk · countable · uncountable

   On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.

5. tổ tiên, dòng dõi

   Ancestors; ancestry.

   countable · uncountable

   Of evil parents an evil generation, a posterity not unlike their majority; of mischievous progenitors, a venomous and destructive progeny.

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