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antimajoritarian

antimajoritarian adjective: opposing majority rule.

Adjective

antimajoritarian (not comparable)

  1. Opposing majority rule
    • Federalism itself is an antimajoritarian mechanism for, by devolving power to smaller constituencies, it places some policy issues beyond the reach of the center's majority.2004, Ugo M. Amoretti, Nancy Gina Bermeo, Federalism and Territorial Cleavages, →ISBN, page 10

Noun

antimajoritarian (plural antimajoritarians)

  1. One who opposes majority rule.

Forms of antimajoritarian

pluralantimajoritarians

Origin of antimajoritarian

From anti- + majoritarian.

Words formed from antimajoritarian

Questions about antimajoritarian

What does antimajoritarian mean?
Antimajoritarian means opposing majority rule.
What part of speech is antimajoritarian?
Antimajoritarian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antimajoritarian in the dictionary

  1. antimagic squares
  2. antimagistratical
  3. antimagnate
  4. antimagnetic
  5. antimainstream
  6. antimajoritarian
  7. antimajoritarianism
  8. antimajoritarians
  9. antimajority
  10. antimakeup
  11. antimalaria

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