majority opinion

1. 1.

   the opinion joined by a majority of the court (generally known simply as `the opinion')

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Questions about majority opinion

What does majority opinion mean?

majority opinion means "the opinion joined by a majority of the court (generally known simply as `the opinion')".

Is majority opinion a common word?

majority opinion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.