PLURALITY


Meaning of PLURALITY in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The mayor won with a plurality of 12,000 votes, while the other two candidates had 9,000 and 7,000 votes, respectively

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Election by plurality in single-member constituencies is of all methods the simplest.

Even the problems posed by a plurality of worlds were negotiable.

In order to be elected, a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast.

John Wilkins insisted on the distinction between a plurality of worlds within one universe and a plurality of distinct universes.

While coercion may have been appropriate enough before 1945, the plurality of power in a representative system makes it inappropriate thereafter.

While the typology sets up these principles, only a commentary can be faithful to them and maintain the text's plurality .

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