MINORS

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M(3) I(1) N(1) O(1) R(1) S(1)

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Definition

noun

A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
“It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.”
A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
“I became an English minor.”
Determinant of a square submatrix
(British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.

verb

To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
“I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.”