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minority (s) (noun), minorities (pl)
1. A small number of people or things that are part of a larger group but different in some way from most of the group: The wage proposal is opposed by a minority of the union members.
2. A group of people, within a society, whose members have different ethnic, racial, national, religious, sexual, political, linguistic, or other characteristics from the rest of a group or population: The religious group is becoming an influential minority in Adam's community.
3. A period when a person is not old enough to have the full rights of an adult: Teenagers are in a status of being a status of a minority because they are younger than the legal age of adulthood.
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