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majority-minority en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From majority + minority.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a city, usually) Having a total minority population above 50%.
    • Several years ago, the Census Bureau began to predict that the United States would become a majority-minority nation by the 2040s — that African- and Asian-Americans, as well as Latinos, would outnumber non-Hispanic whites. 2017 May 11, Herbert J. Gans, “The Census and Right-Wing Hysteria”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2020: