Picture a group split by a vote or a count, and the smaller piece — under half. Minority names that smaller piece. Which piece it is depends on what you counted: hands raised, languages spoken, or, in law, the years before someone is old enough to count as an adult.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
minoritynoun/maɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/
- 1
The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness.
- 2
The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.
- And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division, without the intermise of strangers, her forces were again sought and required; she forsook them not, prevailed so far as to be possessed of the castle of Edinburgh, the principal strength of that kingdom, with peace, incontinently, without cunctations or cavillations, the preambles of a wavering faith, she rendered with all honour and security; and his person to safe and faithful hands; and so ever after during his minority continued his principal guardian and protector.
- She also played a key role as dowager-regent during the minority of her son.
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Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority.
- Most people agreed, but a sizable minority were upset by the decision.
- Chuhsiung was in the heart of Yi country. The Yi made up the largest minority in Yunnan, with over three million members as of 1990. And their biggest concentration was in the mountains around Chuhsiung.
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A member of an ethnic minority.
- The company claims it has hired several minorities since the complaint was lodged.
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human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceA group of people seen as distinct who are subordinated and discriminated against in a society.
- But we have seen that one important difference between women and other minorities is that women's attitudes and self-conceptions are conditioned more largely by interaction with both minority and dominant group members
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A Muslim.
minorityadj/maɪˈnɒɹ.ɪ.ti/
- 1
Of or relating to a minority.
- They hold a minority interest in the company.
- 2
governmentpoliticsEmpowered by or representing a minority (usually a plurality) of votes cast, legislative seats, etc., rather than an outright majority thereof.
- minority government
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