{
    "term": "majority",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the largest part of a group of people or things",
            "sensetop": "majority (of somebody/something)in a/the majority (of something)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The majority of people interviewed prefer TV to radio.",
                    "contextForm": "majority (of somebody/something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The majority was/were in favour of banning new coal mines."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This treatment is not available in the **vast majority** of hospitals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The overwhelming majority of participants were men."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to represent/form/constitute/comprise the majority of somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the nursing profession, women are in the majority.",
                    "contextForm": "in a/the majority (of something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The drug provided significant pain relief in a majority of cases."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a majority decision *(= one that is decided by what most people want)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We make decisions by **majority vote**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the majority opinion/view"
                },
                {
                    "text": "English speakers form the majority of the population."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He joined the majority in criticizing the government's reforms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the general population, right-handed people are in the majority."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Opinion polls show that a majority supports a change in the law."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The French company holds a majority stake in the retail chain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The leader of the majority party in the assembly serves as the prime minister."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "great", "huge"],
                "verb + majority": ["compose", "constitute", "form"],
                "majority + noun": ["community", "culture", "group"],
                "preposition": ["in the majority"],
                "phrases": ["in the majority of cases"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the number of votes by which one political party wins an election; the number of votes by which one side in a discussion, etc. wins",
            "sensetop": "by/with a majority of somethingmajority over somebody",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(especially British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially North American English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She was elected by a majority of 749.",
                    "contextForm": "by/with a majority of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The resolution was carried by a huge majority."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They had a large majority over their nearest rivals.",
                    "contextForm": "majority over somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have a **clear majority** *(= large majority)* in Parliament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to win/get/gain/secure a majority"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Republicans increased their majority in both the House and the Senate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They failed to win the requisite two-thirds majority."
                },
                {
                    "text": "To govern effectively, he will need a working majority in Congress."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "huge", "large"],
                "verb + majority": ["carry", "command", "have"],
                "majority + noun": ["government", "rule", "leader"],
                "preposition": ["by a majority", "majority against", "majority in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the difference between the number of votes given to the candidate who wins the election and the total number of votes of all the other candidates",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Without this shift, Kerry would have had a popular majority of a million votes."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "huge", "large"],
                "verb + majority": ["carry", "command", "have"],
                "majority + noun": ["government", "rule", "leader"],
                "preposition": ["by a majority", "majority against", "majority in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the age at which you are legally considered to be an adult",
            "labels": "(law)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The age of majority in Britain was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1970."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/məˈdʒɒrəti/",
                "audio": "ma/majority/majority__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/məˈdʒɔːrəti/",
                "audio": "ma/majority/majority__us_3_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (denoting superiority): from French majorité, from medieval Latin majoritas, from Latin major, comparative of magnus ‘great’."
}