minority population

collocation in English

meaningsofminorityandpopulation

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minority
noun
uk
/maɪˈnɒr.ə.ti/us
/maɪˈnɔːr.ə.t̬i/
a smaller number ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofminorityandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofminority population

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Across theminoritypopulationgenerally, lack of understanding of pension arrangements, including state pensions, is widespread.
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At the highest intensities, the dominant processes of energy absorption are collisionless, and the energy is given to aminoritypopulationof high energy electrons.
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Levied almost exclusively on theminoritypopulation, the legislation, and regulations introduced under its auspices, became a central grievance leading to the civil rights movement of the late 1960s.
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The inclusion in research of individuals living in areas of a scattered and low-density ethnicminoritypopulationproduces high costs (associated with finding and contacting subjects) and problems of confidentiality.
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They would have been used on theminoritypopulationin the right set of circumstances.
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In effect, through the policy of internment, we have the total alienation of theminoritypopulation.
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We have a better record than almost any other equivalent country in the western world with a large ethnicminoritypopulation.
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They were found in loyalist areas and were intended for use not against the security forces but against theminoritypopulation.
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All three services have established ethnic minority recruiting teams or diversity action teams and located them in areas of high ethnicminoritypopulation.
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The index also affects towns such as mine, which have a small ethnicminoritypopulation.
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Actual statistics detailing the present ethnicminoritypopulationfor each cluster area are not available.
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No projections of the ethnicminoritypopulationfor local areas are available.
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Call it detention, but it will be interpreted by theminoritypopulationas continuation of internment.
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It is well worth reading again, because it is particularly important to theminoritypopulation.
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That guarantee stands in open defiance and contradiction of the aspirations of theminoritypopulation.
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We all know that theminoritypopulationis unevenly distributed regionally, but it is highly concentrated in our largest urban centres.
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That does not apply only to areas with a totally white population, as compared with areas with an ethnicminoritypopulation.
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It must be remembered that over half the ethnicminoritypopulationlive in designated inner city authority areas.
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In 1969–70 there was a mass movement of population which mainly affected theminoritypopulation.
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