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I . minority <-ies> [maɪˈnɔːrət̬i, Brit -ˈnɒrəti] N

minoria f

to be in the minority

II . minority [maɪˈnɔːrət̬i, Brit -ˈnɒrəti] ADJ

minoritário(-a)

minority sport

esporte da minoria

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Nearly one-half of students enrolled are minorities, and 72 percent are female. en.wikipedia.org

For minorities, the ballot survey found, a recount would not have redressed the inequities because most ballots were beyond retrieving. en.wikipedia.org

Nine percent of the department's graduate students are underrepresented minorities. en.wikipedia.org

Perhaps the most obvious is the isolation of minorities, which creates a deficit in the potential for developing human capital. en.wikipedia.org

The movements also coincide with episodes of xenophobia or moral panic in which various minorities are targeted as undesirable influences for medical or moral reasons. en.wikipedia.org

The same census records 60,066 residents belonging to ethnic minorities. en.wikipedia.org

He pointed out that when schools excessively follow patterns in the labor market, they tend to reinforce the inequities of society against minorities and women. en.wikipedia.org

She pointed out that ethnic minorities often lived in poverty and relied on benefits to pull them back from the breadline. www.express.co.uk

Many of these service sector workers are minorities, immigrants, and women. en.wikipedia.org

And 21 percent of tenure-track faculty members in 2013 were minorities, compared with 15 percent a decade ago, according to the report. www.thegazette.com

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