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US
/maɪˈnɔɹəti, məˈnɔɹəti/
]
[ UK /maɪnˈɒɹɪti/ ]
[ UK /maɪnˈɒɹɪti/ ]
NOUN
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being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts
he held a minority position
when the vote was taken they were in the minority - a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
- any age prior to the legal age
How To Use minority In A Sentence
- A strategic alliance may take the form of an outright acquisition, minority stake, joint venture or brand franchise.
- Some may insist you sleep on mats on hard floors to straighten out the spine, but they are in a minority.
- The situation reminds of other art items like netsuke or tsuba in the 50s when these items where collected only by a small minority.
- The presence on an arts board of the occasional, often atypical artist from a minority does not do much for the community, other than condescend to him or her.
- The White Shadow – A unique series that took a rather real look at urban life among predominately minority teen-agers. Hulu Awards: Johnny Jay’s Final Wrap Up and Best of Hulu
- Moreover, I can't think of any other 'minority' of which this is remotely true, unless it were to be the other minority from which I can claim descent: people of British or Anglophile provenance. Christopher Hitchens: Reinstate Rick Sanchez!
- He allegedly said he would have continued bombing ethnic minority communities if he had not been caught.
- Agencies that have thought their only remit was to address minority issues must reassess the way they work. Times, Sunday Times
- The movement's admiration of non-European art unwittingly offered artists from minority cultures the opportunity to value their own visual traditions.
- It says it wants 10 percent minority representation, and then they have to jigger the system to figure out how to reach that number.