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antimajority en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + majority.

Meanings

1. Opposing a social majority.
   • The zoot suit was antimajority class and antimajority ethnicity. There are classic black-and-white photos of Bennington College women in the 1940s and 1950s dressed in a manner that offended the townspeople because the women were not "well dressed." 2011, Will Barratt, Social Class on Campus: Theories and Manifestations, page 34:
   • If further evidence of the BBC's willingness to operate an antimajority colour bar were required, then it was provided in an advertisement in the Guardian of Monday, 6 June 1994. This applied exclusively to "ethnic minority applicants,"[…] 1998, R. Honeyford, The Commission for Racial Equality, page 271:

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antiminority