RELATIVE MAJORITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relative majority mean? 

• RELATIVE MAJORITY (noun)
  The noun RELATIVE MAJORITY has 1 sense:

1. (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)

  Familiarity information: RELATIVE MAJORITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIVE MAJORITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

plurality; relative majority

Hypernyms ("relative majority" is a kind of...):

relative quantity (a quantity relative to some purpose)

Domain category:

election (a vote to select the winner of a position or political office)