the greater number or the age when a person is legally considered a full adult, in most contexts either 18 or 21.
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Stars a yellow-ish orange for the majority of their lifetimes.
Majority means it is major, so there's more. Minority means it's minor, meaning there's less.
Majority means it is major, so there's more. Minority means it's minor, meaning there's less.
It means High-Definition Video,it is what the majority of films and television shows are recorded in.
Acquisitions are often carried out by buying a majority of stock in a company. Sometimes, the acquisition is hostile meaning that the stockholders do not want the buyer or buyers to have a majority interest in the company.
A democracy is a group or organization that is governed by the people. This is achieved by reaching a majority vote on issues.
Actually, most countries are non-muslim, meaning either that they don't have a muslim majority, or that they don't have a muslim government.
More than half, meaning there are more choosing one thing than the other.
Basically, it's a majoritarian model, meaning that the majority rules.
In American English, a 'simple majority' means over half the valid votes cast. On the other hand, a 'qualified majority' includes stipulations like 'two-thirds of the valid votes cast provided that at least 60% of those eligible to vote do so'. Other English-speaking countries such as Britain and Canada and all non-English speaking countries (some exclusively) have retained the original meaning of 'majority' as the greater number or part, so that 'simple majority' means more votes than any other candidate or party (so 'relative majority' has been used as a synonym), though the American English meaning is often employed.