majority rule

1. 1.

   the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group

   Synonymsdemocracy

   Broaderdoctrine

Questions about majority rule

What does majority rule mean?

majority rule means "the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group".

What is another word for majority rule?

Close synonyms include democracy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is majority rule a common word?

majority rule 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.