minors

Noun

minor (plural minors)

1. A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
   • No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.
2. A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
   • He plays in the minors.
3. (Canada, US) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
   • I got a minor in English Lit.
4. (Canada, US, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
   • I became an English minor.
5. A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
   • ...the whole of a system of rth minors being zero...1850, James Joseph Sylvester, London, Edinburgh, & Dublin Philosophical Magazine..., volume 37, page 366
6. (Australian) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
   • Brown from a mark on the magazine wing put up the first minor.1903 May 16, Sporting News, Tasmania, page 4

   Synonyms:

   behind

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