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 Translation for 'majority' from English to Portuguese
NOUN   a majority | majorities
SYNO absolute majority | bulk | legal age | ...
maioria {f}majority
maioria {f} das açõesmajority of shares
na maioria das vezes {adv}in the majority of cases
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Usage Examples English
  • Smartphones (alone, without tablets), first gained majority in December 2016 (desktop-majority was lost the month before), and it wasn't a Christmas-time fluke, as while close to majority after smartphone majority happened again in March 2017.
  • A majority may sometimes be called a "simple majority" to contrast with other terms using "majority".
  • Some previously Anglo-majority cities have since become majority Hispanic, such as Miami (Hispanic majority by the 1970s) and San Antonio (Hispanic majority by the 1980s).
  • A referendum will succeed if 'double majority' is achieved.
  • Luna and Gligorești have a Romanian majority, while in Luncani, Hungarians represent the majority.

  • In most municipalities with either a relative or absolute Croatian majority, Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ) won a majority of the vote and the right to choose the mayor.
  • A double majority requires approval by a majority of individuals voting, and also by a majority of cantons.
  • Methods which pass the majority criterion but fail mutual majority can have a spoiler effect, since if a non-mutual majority-preferred candidates wins instead of a mutual majority-preferred candidate, then if all but one of the candidates in the mutual majority-preferred set drop out, the remaining mutual majority-preferred candidate will win, which is an improvement from the perspective of all voters in the majority.
  • Most of the settlements in the municipality have an ethnic Serb majority.
  • For a referendum to approve an amendment of the constitution, it must ordinarily achieve a "double majority": approved by a majority of states (i.e., four of the six states) as well as a majority of those voting nationwide.

  • The majority floor leader is elected among the members of the majority bloc, or those who voted for the Speaker.
  • As for local communities, 20 have a Hungarian majority, 15 have a Serb majority, seven have Croatian/Bunjevci majority, one has a Montenegrin majority and two are ethnically mixed, with a Hungarian relative majority.
  • If no single bloc obtained an absolute majority, a runoff election would be held between the two most popular coalitions, of which the winner will obtain a majority prize – a seat bonus ensuring a majority.
  • The Florida Senate Majority Office is the political extension of the Florida Senate president.
  • Most of the time a single party won majority government even if it did not win a majority of the vote.

  • The referendum was an optional referendum, which only a majority of the vote, as opposed to the mandatory referendums, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons.
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