Crossword clues for majorities
majorities
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Majority \Ma*jor"i*ty\, n.; pl. Majorities. [F. majorit['e]. See Major.]
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The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority. Specifically:
The military rank of a major.
The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
[Cf. L. majores.] Ancestors; ancestry. [Obs.]
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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.
To go over to the majority or To join the majority, to die.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of majority English)
Usage examples of "majorities".
Repeatedly throughout the next year, large majorities of Americans would tell pollsters they also supported attacking Iraq.
In fact, abortion may be the only issue on which Clinton did not flip, repeatedly vetoing a series of partial-birth abortion bans passed by large majorities in both the House and Senate.
Although the editors knew that the popular vote at the South had gone for Tilden and the paper had already grudgingly conceded him New York State, they preferred to act as if the Democratic majorities in Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina had already been reversed by the Republican Returning Boards.
Vast majorities of Americans agree with Newt Gingrich on at least three of the issues—school prayer, the death penalty, and sentencing guidelines.
But to a correspondent in England, he warned, “Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots,” and he lamented that so much more blood would have to flow before the lesson was learned.
Inasmuch as vast majorities of Americans consistently rank Republicans as better on national defense, Rove evidently believed this was an argument that would resonate with voters.