minority leader
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5.6
- noun
- /maɪˈnɔrɪti ˈlidər/
- US
:
líder de la minoría
- Chuck Schumer, the Democrat Minority Leader in the Senate, said that President Trump said it is what it is.
- minority leader and majority leader
He's walking the halls of Congress demanding that people like House Leader, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy meet with him.
- He's walking the halls of Congress demanding that people like House Leader, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy meet with him.
Examples
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Once more, the majority and minority leaders joined forces to defeat the constitutional option, and the Senate overturned Humphrey's ruling 45-53.
Academic text (2004) -
Contact the majority and minority leaders of the House Committee on International Relations and the Senate Foreign Relations Committees.
Blog text (13) -
I see that Pelosi won another term as minority leader.
Blog text (30) -
Thissen, a member of the House since 2002, has served as minority leader during the last two years.
Blog text (23) -
Pelosi would not be running for minority leader unless she already had the votes in her pocket.
Blog text (24) -
After the conference, we got calls from the Secretary of Commerce, the Speaker of the House, and both the Majority and Minority Leaders in the Senate.
Fiction book (1995) -
And I remember meeting with the leadership team at the time, Minority Leader Boehner and Whip Cantor and others.
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"On Tuesday, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, called for the abolition of municipal fire departments.
Blog text (20) -
"The handwriting is on the wall," said state senate minority leader John Dealy (D-Rock City).
Fiction book (1995) -
In the Senate, the minority leader advocates for policies that represent the interests of the opposition party.
Synonyms
2
6.8
A person chosen to speak for and guide their party in meetings where laws are made
Antonyms
91
5.0
A person who leads the political party with the most members in a law-making body like a senate or house
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the leader of the smaller side in a legislature' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'minority' (the smaller side) with 'leader' (person who leads). This compositional structure is common cross-linguistically and follows straightforward English noun–noun semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Minority leader comes from a simple meeting image: the smaller group, the minority, chooses one person, the leader, to speak for them. That's why today minority leader means the person who leads the political party with fewer seats in parliament or congress.