Usage of "plurality" | TermGallery

Portuguese

montão

Catalan

massa

Spanish

masa

A large indefinite number.

Portuguese

Spanish

Catalan

The candidate or proposition that polls more votes than any other, but not necessarily with a majority.

relative majority

maioria simples

Synonyms

Examples for "relative majority"

relative majority

Examples for "relative majority"

Most members of those assemblies will be chosen by relative majority voting, and will represent geographic constituencies. 
 Reuters 

GOVERNORS: State governors will be chosen by relative majority -the winner is the one with the most votes. 
 Reuters 

The first serves for the direct election of candidates standing in constituency seats, the winner being determined by a relative majority. 
 The Irish Times 

Moreover-andthis ought to have clinched the matter-theHellenic population formed an absolute as well as a relative majority in the year 1919. 
 The Inside Story of the Peace Conference 

Not so, Mr. President; look at the relative majorities of the two houses of Congress as they will be after the fourth of March next. 
 The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) 

Usage of plurality in English

Shutting Sky News would eliminate the media plurality issue at a stroke. 
 The Guardian 

And Al Hussein said this discouraged a plurality of views on issues. 
 Radio NZ 

That the Sadducees might not assert the plurality of powers in heaven. 
 Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and ... 

And each time his plurality was greater than it had been before. 
 The United States Since the Civil War 

The coachman drove four large bay horses, with a plurality of reins. 
 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 18... 

A certain philological society decided linguistic questions by a plurality of votes. 
 What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of ... 

Those individuals are nominated who receive a plurality of all votes cast. 
 Problems in American Democracy 

STRANGER: Every class, then, has plurality of being and infinity of not-being. 
 Sophist 

The plurality of buttons that freckle the base and shaft are commonplace. 
 Wired 

Old plurality was about caging the beast, keeping a diversity of voices. 
 The Guardian 

Robertson said the government will act to ensure media plurality remains. 
 Radio NZ 

The appeal will focus on the issue of plurality, NZME said. 
 Radio NZ 

British communications regulator Ofcom is also reviewing the case on media plurality issues. 
 Reuters 

Even the Jews in the interior have a plurality of wives. 
 The Innocents Abroad 

For the essence of plurality is otherness; apart from otherness plurality is unintelligible. 
 The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy 

By all means avoid a plurality of Presbyterian denominations in the same locality. 
 Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talma... 