late majority
majority
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /məˈdʒɒrəti/us
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used to refer to the situation when a person or organization owns more shares in a company than any other shareholder, and enough to be in control of the company:
According to government requirements, the airline must not fall into foreign majority control.
The group's majority shareholder has been accused of withholding financial data.
Profits have soared, thanks in part to the company's majority ownership of the country's most successful newspaper group.

Examples of majority

majority
Not just by majoritarianism, intuitively characterized, but also by unanimitarianism and minoritarianism and any procedures requiring special majorities of two-thirds and the like.
Vast majorities of dalits remained aligned with agriculture in some capacity or the other.
Legitimacy politics for the official assembly was dominated by democratic discourse based on constructed notions of majorities that were accepted as objective social facts.
At first, economic development and its attendant white-collar majorities were themselves in short supply.
Processes of negotiation and exchange open the possibility of mixed outcomes reflecting the asymmetric preferences of majorities and minorities.
Moreover, large majorities believed the government's policies to be ' too favourable ' to business (70n4 per cent) and ' too unfavourable ' to workers (67n8 per cent).
Unfortunately, spontaneous majorities rarely form in support of one party.
If the distribution of seats and of preferences were the same, there would be equally many minority governments supported by legislative majorities under both systems.
Politicians within central government know that certain seats are more important than others to secure legislative majorities.
The net effect may still be desirable from the majority's point of view.
Certainly, the school choice scheme appears popular with many parents, and has achieved good satisfaction ratings from majorities.
Where legislative majorities are large it is less important, but the same is true of a supermajority multiplier.
The majority's rationale does not necessarily set the significance of the decision, as some legal commentators are prepared to admit.
What followed were attempts to treat unprotected minorities, including marginalised and weak ones, as equal to the majorities.
Overwhelming majorities supported not only local bills generally but big-city bills specifically.
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Collocations withmajority

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These are words often used in combination with majority.

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bare majority
The party's parliamentary seats plunged even more spectacularly from a baremajority of 151 at dissolution (of 295 seats) to just two.
clear majority
A clearmajority said that opportunities still existed for learning progression (75%) and in achieving a sensible coverage of the curriculum (85%).
conservative majority
Prussia used a highly restrictive three-class voting system in which the richest third of the population could choose 85% of the legislature, all but assuring a conservativemajority.
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