supermajority

名词 n.
/ˌs(j)upɜɹməˈd͡ʒɔɹɪti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A majority of the items being counted that reaches some preset threshold significantly greater than 50 percent, such as two thirds. Canada,US
    — It was in order to exclude not water, but the light of day, that the Roblin Government kept its super-majority on the Public Accounts Committee working under such heavy pressure, with two foremen on the job, Taylor and Coldwell, who kept them so hard at it that the Liberals were prevented from getting at the full facts of the Kelly work on the new Parliament buildings and the Roblin Government work on the Provincial Treasury in connection with Kelly.

词形变化

supermajorities plural super-majority alternative supramajority alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English majority
English supermajority
From super- (“above, greater than”) + majority.
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