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noun. The smaller in number of two groups forming a whole.

noun. A group or party having fewer than a controlling number of votes.

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noun. A racial, religious, political, national, or other group thought to be different from the larger group of which it is part.

noun. A group having little power or representation relative to other groups within a society.

noun. A member of one of these groups.

noun. The state or period of being younger than the age for legal adulthood.

noun. The state of being minor or smaller.

noun. The minor part in number; the smaller of two aggregates into which a whole is divided numerically; a number less than half: opposed to majority.

noun. Specifically The smaller of two related aggregates of persons; the minor division of any whole number of persons: as, the rights of the minority; government by minorities.

noun. The state of being a minor or not come of age, and therefore legally incapacitated for the performance of certain acts; the period or interval before one is of full age, generally the period from birth until twenty-one years of age (see age, 3); in Scots law, the interval between pupilarity and majority. See minor, n., 1.

noun. The state of being a minor, or under age.

noun. State of being less or small.

noun. The smaller number; -- opposed to majority.

noun. Those members of a legislature that belong to the political party which is in the minority in that institution.

noun. Empowered by or representing a minority (usually a plurality) of votes cast, legislative seats, etc., rather than an outright majority thereof.

noun. any age prior to the legal age

noun. being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts

noun. a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part

"The powerful Socialist and revolutionary minority created in industrial communities by equal suffrage and a democratic form of government, _as long as it remains distinctly a minority_, is unable to injure the combined forces of capitalism, while it furnishes a useful and invaluable club by which the progressive capitalists can threaten and overwhelm the reactionaries."

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