Minority meaning in English

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Definition

a minority: a smaller group, a lesser part noun

Examples

"The usual group will be present: Mr. Quincy, Mr. Oléré, and investment banker Lyle Bumblefund, an outside director who represents the interests of Delavigne's minority shareholders."
"Even in France, where a minority of workers are unionized, unions are still able to make their presence felt with highly publicized transportation strikes."
"San Francisco has historically been a city tolerant of minority groups."
"And somewhere over there in the corner is Horatio Oléré, master perfumer and minority shareholder."

Exercise 1

What is an equal opportunity employer?

A business that assesses the performance of its new employees at regular intervals.

A business that is fair or impartial in their hiring practices.

A business that recruits the same amount of employees every year.

A business that maintains a certain number of minority employees.

I don't know

What is an equal opportunity employer?

A business that assesses the performance of its new employees at regular intervals.

This is not the correct choice. An equal opportunity employer refers to a business that practices fair hiring tactics; the term is unrelated to frequency that a company "assesses" or "evaluates" the performance of its employees.

A business that is fair or impartial in their hiring practices.

This is correct. An equal opportunity employer hires people regardless of age, sex, color, nationality, sexuality and other factors considered unrelated to the ability to perform the job. This term and concept are popular in the US, where people are concerned that certain job candidates are discriminated against due to religion, race, sexual preference etc. A "fair (compromise)" is one which is reasonable, just or relatively equal.

A business that recruits the same amount of employees every year.

This is not the correct choice. An equal opportunity employer refers to a business that practices fair hiring tactics; the term is unrelated to the number of employees a company recruits annually.

A business that maintains a certain number of minority employees.

This is not the correct choice. An equal opportunity employer refers to a business that practices fair hiring tactics; the term is unrelated to the number of minority employees a company maintains.

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