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单词 working majority
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working majority
working majority n. a majority, in a deliberative or legislative body, which is large enough to secure the passing of measures.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [adjective] > of a majority: sufficient
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1827 Atlas 25 Nov. 745/2 It is believed that the influence of the Court..may so far retrieve the fortunes of the general election as to leave the Ministers a working majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
1858 Penny Cycl. 2nd Suppl. II. 495/2 With the command of a working majority of about a hundred in the House of Commons, Sir Robert Peel entered on the greatest period of his political career.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxiv. 131 It was not impossible that the servants of the Crown might, by prudent management, succeed in obtaining a working majority.
1922 Good Housek. June 28/1 In order to obtain harmony we must have a working majority in Congress.
2010 B. Leaming Churchill Defiant xi. 124 Polls suggested that the Conservatives were likely to secure a working majority of thirty to forty seats.
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