minority

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柯林斯詞典

minority /ma??n?r?t?, m?-/ (minorities)

1. N-SING If you talk about a minority of people or things in a larger group, you are referring to a number of them that forms less than half of the larger group, usually much less than half. 少數(shù)
Local authority child-care provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers. 地方政府提供的兒童保育服務(wù)只惠及了極少數(shù)上班族母親們。
2. PHRASE If people are in a minority or in the minority, they belong to a group of people or things that form less than half of a larger group. 占少數(shù)
Even in the 1960s, politically active students and academics were in a minority. 即使是在20世紀(jì)60年代，政治上活躍的學(xué)生和高校教師也是占少數(shù)。
3. N-COUNT A minority is a group of people of the same race, culture, or religion who live in a place where most of the people around them are of a different race, culture, or religion. 少數(shù)民族; 信仰其他宗教的少數(shù)派
...the region's ethnic minorities. …這個(gè)地區(qū)的少數(shù)民族。

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劍橋詞典

minority noun (SMALL PART)

Because the two main parties have won almost the same number of votes , the minority group holds the key to the result .
The fact that a party can be voted into power by a minority of the electorate calls into question the country's electoral system .
It's a minority of these people who are causing trouble .
Those who want violence are in the minority.
In a minority of cases , a prison sentence is appropriate .

minority noun (PEOPLE)

Government by majority rule can be a threat to minority rights .
Human rights activists have accused the country's government of a systematic perpetration of violence against minority groups .
Outraged minority groups will not be placated by promises of future improvements .
They are members of a racial minority.
What are the prospects for overcoming the strife between the Christian minority and Muslim majority ?

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