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MAJORITY OPINION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does majority opinion mean?
• MAJORITY OPINION (noun)
The noun MAJORITY OPINION has 1 sense:
1. the opinion joined by a majority of the court (generally known simply as 'the opinion')
Familiarity information: MAJORITY OPINION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The opinion joined by a majority of the court (generally known simply as 'the opinion')
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("majority opinion" is a kind of...):
judgement; judgment; legal opinion; opinion (the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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