plurality
多元化,多重性,多头,多元性
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plural plu·ral·i·ties.
- : the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate.
- : more than half of the whole; the majority.
- : a number greater than one.
- : fact of being numerous.
- : a large number; multitude.
- : state or fact of being plural.
- : Ecclesiastical. the holding by one person of two or more benefices at the same time; pluralism.any of the benefices so held.
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At the presidential level, the winner of the plurality of the vote gets the state’s 16 electoral votes.
In a Fox News survey from late November, the plurality of people, 47 percent, thought that not all the votes in Florida had been counted.
Such reviews can take many months to complete and open up the possibility of the regulator blocking the deal, which it can do if believes the purchase would in any way undermine national security, financial stability or plurality in media ownership.
It’s not uncommon for a candidate to win with a plurality of only 20 percent or 30 percent of the vote.
That means the next mayor could be someone who seizes a relatively small percentage of the vote, so long as it’s a plurality.
He won then with less than 38 percent of the vote, the smallest plurality of any winning gubernatorial candidate in the country.
Even on the eve of its passage, at least a plurality said they opposed the law.
The misuse of conscience exemptions is threatening our hard-won plurality.
A large plurality of American voters, and 46 percent of the people who voted in 2012, are between the ages of 18 and 44.
The NY Governor has set off a right-wing firestorm, standing accused of seeking to stifle free speech and political plurality.
Each society of monks elected its superior; for, in the early ages of the church, everything was done by the of voices.