单词 | minority government |
释义 | minority government From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Governmentminority governmentmiˌnority ˈgovernment noun [countable]PGa government that does not have enough politicians in a parliament to control parliament and take decisions without the support of other partiesExamples from the Corpusminority government• The following day Labor formed a minority government under Michael Field.• When there is a minority government, however, the combination is far less stable.• In other words, the position of a minority government can be made untenable if all the other parties combine against it.• We need electoral reform so that a minority government with a 100seat advantage can not implement the extremist policies of the Eighties again.• Chandra Shekhar's efforts at keeping his minority government afloat ended in March 1991.• In spite of only a short period of minority government the Labour Party in the 1920s had also developed some ambitious long-term policies. |
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