minority, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

minority (minorities plural )

1  n-sing If you talk about a minority of people or things in a larger group, you are referring to a number of them that forms less than half of the larger group, usually much less than half.
oft N of n  (Antonym: majority) Local authority nursery provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers..., ...minority shareholders.  If people are in a minority or in the minority, they belong to a group of people or things that form less than half of a larger group.
♦ in a/the minority  phrase usu v-link PHR
Even in the 1960s, politically active students and academics were in a minority..., In the past conservatives have been in the minority.

2 n-count A minority is a group of people of the same race, culture, or religion who live in a place where most of the people around them are of a different race, culture, or religion.
...the region's ethnic minorities...