Minors

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minor
n. youth who is not of legal voting age; secondary area of study in a college degree


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Minor
Minor means not important. It may also may refer to:MathematicsMinor (linear algebra), for a given matrix, its minor is the determinant of a certain smaller matrixMinor (graph theory),
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minors
Noun
1. a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)
(synonym) minor league, bush league
(hypernym) league, conference
(member-meronym) minor-league team, minor-league club
(classification) baseball, baseball game, ball

 
minor
Noun
1. a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
(synonym) child, kid, youngster, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling
(hypernym) juvenile, juvenile person
(hyponym) bairn
(part-meronym) child's body
Adjective
1. of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"
(antonym) major
(similar) insignificant, peanut
2. lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
(antonym) major
3. inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"
(antonym) major
(attribute) minority
4. of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
(antonym) major
(classification) music
5. not of legal age; "minor children"
(synonym) nonaged, underage
(antonym) major
(classification) law, jurisprudence
6. of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"
(antonym) major
7. of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
(antonym) major
8. of the younger of two boys with the same family name; "Jones minor"
(synonym) minor(ip)
(similar) junior
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
9. warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin"
(synonym) venial
(similar) pardonable
(classification) theology, divinity
10. limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
(synonym) modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized
(similar) limited


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minors
Children under 21 have the right to reside with their family member who is an EU citizen in any EU Member State, irrespective of which country the child is from. The EU takes measures to protect children from exploitation and violence through programmes like Daphne and STOP. (See EU citizenshipOrganised crime)

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Minors
Publicly owned treatment works with flows less than 1 million gallons per day. (See: majors.)

Provided as a public service by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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