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111Minority reign — The term minority reign or royal minority refers to the period of a sovereign s rule when he or she is legally a minor. Minority reigns are of their nature times when politicians and advisors can be especially competitive.[1] Commonly, a regent… …
112minority carrier injection — ▪ electronics in electronics, a process taking place at the boundary between type and type semiconductor materials, used in some types of transistors (transistor). Each semiconductor material contains two types of freely moving charges:… …
113minority leader — noun leader of the minority party in a legislature • Hypernyms: ↑legislator * * * noun, pl ⋯ ers [count] : the leader of the political party that has fewer members than the leading party in the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives the… …
114Minority Affairs Minister of Israel — The Minority Affairs Minister of Israel was a short lived portfolio in the Israeli cabinet. It existed in the provisional government between 1948 and 1949, [ [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/signers.html The Signatories of the …
115minority group — Synonyms and related words: breakaway group, camp, caucus, division, ethnic group, faction, interest, interest group, least, minority, offshoot, party, political party, pressure group, sect, side, silent majority, splinter, splinter group, the… …
116minority group — Since the 1930s this term has been applied to social groups that are oppressed or stigmatized on the basis of racial, ethnic, biological, or other characteristics. Louis Wirth , for example, defines a minority group as ‘a group of people who,… …
117Minority Rights Group — 1) (Slovakia) Partners in a project with the Minority Rights Group (UK). The group is concerned with offering training to young Romanies in central and eastern Slovakia. 2) (United Kingdom) Among its many activities, the group runs… …
118minority government — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms minority government : singular minority government plural minority governments a government in which the main party has more members than any other single party but not more members than all the other parties… …
119minority report — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms minority report : singular minority report plural minority reports a report made by a group of people within a larger group because they do not agree with the report of the whole group …
120minority report — noun : a separate report prepared by a group constituting or representing a numerical minority (as of a committee) if any members of a committee disagree … they may submit a minority report Alice F. Sturgis the majority and minority reports of… …
