English-Dutch translations for majority

• meerderheid
  Weliswaar een krappe meerderheid, maar het is een meerderheid. A narrow majority perhaps, but still a majority.
  Met een gekwalificeerde meerderheid of een meerderheid via een consensus? Is it a qualified majority or a majority by consensus?
  En het gebruiken van gekwalificeerde meerderheid?What about qualified majority?
• majoriteit
• merendeel
  Het merendeel van de e-mail is tegenwoordig spam. The majority of e-mails are now spam.
  Het merendeel van de auto's beschikt hier echter nog niet over. However, they are not available to the majority.
  Ik kan het merendeel van de amendementen steunen. The vast majority of the amendments I can support.

Definition of majority

• More than half of some group
• The difference between the winning vote and the rest of the votes
• Legal adulthood
• The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major
• Ancestors; ancestry

Examples

• The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best
• Those opposing the building plans were in the majority, so the building project was canceled
• The winner with 53% had a 6% majority over the loser with 47%
• By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice
• On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority

Related words

• supermajority
• majority owner
• majority decision
• majority government
• majority society
• majority judgment
• vast) majority
• absolute majority
• qualified majority