supermajority
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From super- (“above, greater than”) + majority
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supermajority (plural supermajorities)
- A majority of the items being counted that reaches some preset threshold greater than 50%, typically 67% or 75%.
- 2019 March 5, Tim Wu, “The Oppression of the Supermajority”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
- The defining political fact of our time is not polarization. It’s the inability of even large bipartisan majorities to get what they want on issues like these. Call it the oppression of the supermajority.
- 2021 April 15, Libby Brooks, “Could Salmond’s ‘supermajority’ talk harm the Scottish independence cause?”, in The Guardian[3]:
- Launching his new political party, Alba, he [Alex Salmond] claimed he could help secure a “supermajority” for independence in the next Scottish parliament, which would significantly weaken Westminster’s opposition to a second independence referendum.
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majority that reaches a preset threshold greater than 50%
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