Usually means: Multiple options, no majority winner.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word plurality:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. plurality: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plurality: Merriam-Webster
  3. plurality: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plurality: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plurality: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plurality: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plurality, plurality: Wordnik
  8. plurality: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. plurality: Wiktionary
  10. plurality: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plurality: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. plurality: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. plurality: Dictionary.com
  14. plurality: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Plurality (company), Plurality (disambiguation), Plurality (voting), Plurality: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Plurality: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. plurality: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. plurality: Rhymezone
  19. Plurality: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plurality: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. plurality: MyWord.info
  22. plurality: FreeDictionary.org
  23. plurality: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. plurality: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. plurality: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  5. plurality: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plurality: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plurality: Glossary of Election Terms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plurality: Anthropological Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being plural.
noun:  (ecclesiastical) The holding of multiple benefices.
noun:  (countable) A state of being numerous.
noun:  (countable) A number or part of a whole which is greater than any other number or part, but not necessarily a majority.
noun:  (countable) A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast.
noun:  (countable) A margin by which a number exceeds another number, especially of votes.
noun:  (countable) A group of many entities: a large number.
noun:  (countable) A group composed of more than one entity.
noun:  (of spouses) Polygamy.
noun:  (psychology) Synonym of multiplicity (“the condition whereby a person displays or experiences multiple distinct personalities or selves in one body”).

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