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majority

/muh-jawr-i-tee, -jor-/US // məˈdʒɔr ɪ ti, -ˈdʒɒr- //UK // (məˈdʒɒrɪtɪ) //

大多数人,大多数,多数人,多数

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ma·jor·i·ties.

    • : the greater part or number; the number larger than half the total: the majority of the population.
    • : a number of voters or votes, jurors, or others in agreement, constituting more than half of the total number.
    • : the amount by which the greater number, as of votes, surpasses the remainder.
    • : the party or faction with the majority vote: The Democratic Party is the majority.
    • : the state or time of being of full legal age: to attain one's majority.
    • : the military rank or office of a major.

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Examples

  • The majority of CU Boulder cases come from off-campus students.

  • Busting the filibuster and using a newly unleashed majority to uncork several major changes to the structure of American politics would be a shocking turn of events.

  • Since mid-June, a majority of the new coronavirus deaths each day have occurred in red states.

  • Polls conducted in the past two months show a majority of Americans worry development of the vaccine is being rushed and a third wouldn’t get inoculated.

  • The truth is that the majority of gang members never commit a gang-related crime in their life.

  • I think a large majority of our fans are [other] nationalities.

  • House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker.

  • Again, I do not know House Majority Whip Scalise or President Obama personally.

  • This is a state, after all, where Duke, in his statewide race for governor in 1991, received a majority of the white vote.

  • Though this too is debatable given that 25,000 to 40,000 people a year die of influenza—the vast majority of them unvaccinated.

  • Ever since his majority Lord Hetton had annually entered a colt in the great race.

  • Such is the opinion of this Correspondent to the Times, and it is doubtless the opinion of a fair and just majority.

  • While the majority pulled in one way there was an active minority that wished the Nana to set up an independent kingdom.

  • At any rate, whatsoever that curious reservation meant, the majority of the staff were opposed to surrender.

  • The majority pick up a job when they can, but are inevitably idle and suffering two-thirds of the time.