Word.ws English Dictionary

majority rules

majority rules is the plural of majority rule.

Meaning of majority rule

Noun

majority rule (countable and uncountable, plural majority rules)

  1. A decision rule whereby the decisions of the numerical majority of a group will be binding on the whole group, its parts, and each member.
  2. The social choice function that selects the Condorcet winner if one exists, and otherwise makes no decision.

Questions about majority rules

What is majority rules the plural of?
Majority rules is the plural of majority rule.

Words near majority rules in the dictionary

  1. majority government
  2. majority opinion
  3. majority opinions
  4. majority problem
  5. majority rule
  6. majority rules
  7. Majority World
  8. majority-minority
  9. majorityhood
  10. majorizability
  11. majorizable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: majority rules (page history and authors); majority rule (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “majority rules.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/majority_rules. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.