minority

[Mi*norĀ·i*ty]

The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.

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The state of being a minor, or under age.

Noun
being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts; "when the vote was taken they were in the minority"; "he held a minority position"

Noun
a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part

Noun
any age prior to the legal age


a. & n.
The state of being a minor, or under age.

a. & n.
State of being less or small.

a. & n.
The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.


Minority

Mi*nor"i*ty , n.; pl. Minorities . [Cf. F. minorit'82. See Minor, a. & n.] 1. The state of being a minor, or under age. 2. State of being less or small. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. 3. The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.

The state of being a minor, or under age.

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Usage Examples

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

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Other Usage Examples

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

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