Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.
overall majority — overall majorities N COUNT: usu sing If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents … English dictionary
overall majority — UK / US noun [countable, usually singular] Word forms overall majority : singular overall majority plural overall majorities 1) more votes won in an election than all the other political parties added together No single party enjoys an overall… … English dictionary
overall majority — overall ma jority noun count usually singular 1. ) more votes won in an election than all the other political parties added together 2. ) the number of extra votes won by a political party that make it able to form a government … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
overall majority — noun (C) 1 more votes than all the other political parties together 2 BrE the difference between this number of votes and the total votes gained by all the other parties … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
overall majority — … Useful english dictionary
overall — 1. pronunciation. When the word is a noun (singular overall or plural overalls) the stress is on the first syllable; when an adjective it normally falls on the first syllable and when an adverb on the third, but the stress is variable in context … Modern English usage
Overall (disambiguation) — Overall may be used in the following circumstances Overall (garment) Overall (surname) comprehensive, all embracing Overall length Length overall, where overall is sometimes abbreviated as o/a, o.a. or oa Overall pressure ratio for the term… … Wikipedia
majority — We are concerned here with three related uses, two of them relatively straightforward and one that gives rise to a difficulty: 1. majority = ‘a superiority in numbers’, especially in political contexts, ‘the amount by which a winning vote exceeds … Modern English usage
Majority — This article is about the mathematical concept of majority. For other uses, see Majority (disambiguation). A majority is a subset of a group consisting of more than half of its members. This can be compared to a plurality, which is a subset… … Wikipedia
majority */*/*/ — UK [məˈdʒɒrətɪ] / US [məˈdʒɔrətɪ] noun Word forms majority : singular majority plural majorities 1) a) [singular] most of the people or things in a group: can be followed by a singular or plural verb His job is to represent the views of the… … English dictionary
