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{
"term": "majority",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the largest part of a group of people or things",
"sensetop": "majority (of somebody/something)in a/the majority (of something)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The majority of people interviewed prefer TV to radio.",
"contextForm": "majority (of somebody/something)"
},
{
"text": "The majority was/were in favour of banning new coal mines."
},
{
"text": "This treatment is not available in the **vast majority** of hospitals."
},
{
"text": "The overwhelming majority of participants were men."
},
{
"text": "to represent/form/constitute/comprise the majority of somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "In the nursing profession, women are in the majority.",
"contextForm": "in a/the majority (of something)"
},
{
"text": "The drug provided significant pain relief in a majority of cases."
},
{
"text": "a majority decision *(= one that is decided by what most people want)*"
},
{
"text": "We make decisions by **majority vote**."
},
{
"text": "the majority opinion/view"
},
{
"text": "English speakers form the majority of the population."
},
{
"text": "He joined the majority in criticizing the government's reforms."
},
{
"text": "In the general population, right-handed people are in the majority."
},
{
"text": "Opinion polls show that a majority supports a change in the law."
},
{
"text": "The French company holds a majority stake in the retail chain."
},
{
"text": "The leader of the majority party in the assembly serves as the prime minister."
}
],
"topics": ["Social issues"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "great", "huge"],
"verb + majority": ["compose", "constitute", "form"],
"majority + noun": ["community", "culture", "group"],
"preposition": ["in the majority"],
"phrases": ["in the majority of cases"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the number of votes by which one political party wins an election; the number of votes by which one side in a discussion, etc. wins",
"sensetop": "by/with a majority of somethingmajority over somebody",
"labels": "(especially North American English)(especially British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially North American English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was elected by a majority of 749.",
"contextForm": "by/with a majority of something"
},
{
"text": "The resolution was carried by a huge majority."
},
{
"text": "They had a large majority over their nearest rivals.",
"contextForm": "majority over somebody"
},
{
"text": "They have a **clear majority** *(= large majority)* in Parliament."
},
{
"text": "to win/get/gain/secure a majority"
},
{
"text": "Republicans increased their majority in both the House and the Senate."
},
{
"text": "They failed to win the requisite two-thirds majority."
},
{
"text": "To govern effectively, he will need a working majority in Congress."
}
],
"topics": ["Politics"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "huge", "large"],
"verb + majority": ["carry", "command", "have"],
"majority + noun": ["government", "rule", "leader"],
"preposition": ["by a majority", "majority against", "majority in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the difference between the number of votes given to the candidate who wins the election and the total number of votes of all the other candidates",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Without this shift, Kerry would have had a popular majority of a million votes."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "huge", "large"],
"verb + majority": ["carry", "command", "have"],
"majority + noun": ["government", "rule", "leader"],
"preposition": ["by a majority", "majority against", "majority in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the age at which you are legally considered to be an adult",
"labels": "(law)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The age of majority in Britain was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1970."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/məˈdʒɒrəti/",
"audio": "ma/majority/majority__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/məˈdʒɔːrəti/",
"audio": "ma/majority/majority__us_3_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (denoting superiority): from French majorité, from medieval Latin majoritas, from Latin major, comparative of magnus ‘great’."
}