majority-minority

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English

Etymology

From majority +‎ minority.

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Adjective

majority-minority (not comparable)

  1. (of a city, country, etc.) Having a total minority population above 50%.
    • 2017 May 11, Herbert J. Gans, “The Census and Right-Wing Hysteria”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2020-12-06:
      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.