From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishworking majorityworking majorityBritish English enough support in parliament for a government to continue making laws and ruling a country → working
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working majority• None gave the Tories a hope of being elected with a working majority.• The debate was acrimonious, with opposition parties denouncing Shamir's deals with defectors from other parties to win his working majority.• With the support of various independents, they gave the General a solid working majority.• The working majority achieved by the Conservatives removed that worry.• Since then, Labour has never won a secure working majority at any election.• Without its support the coalition will not have a working majority in parliament.• Together the four parties had 191 seats, a working majority of 11.• However, a second election took place in September of that year, which gave him a pathetic working majority of four. 