Crossword-Solution: MAJORITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Majority | n. | The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. |
| Majority | n. | The military rank of a major. |
| Majority | n. | The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs. |
| Majority | n. | The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast. |
| Majority | n. | Ancestors; ancestry. |
| Majority | n. | The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MAJORITY (5)
Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.
Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Thus, while virtually any flag can be used for ships under a given set of circumstances, an FOC register is one where the majority of the merchant fleet is owned abroad.
The majority of the population does not have ready access to safe drinking water, adequate medical care, or sufficient food.
With the majority such an opinion is shelved with all those trite aphorisms which require some catastrophe to bring their tremendous meanings thoroughly home.
Quotes with MAJORITY (3)
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WP.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1944–2016).