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What is a supermajority?

What is a supermajority? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any qualified majority, specified in advance of a vote, required for the vote to be passed
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But they fell three votes short of the supermajority required to send the package to Congress.
Options which do not have an explicit supermajority requirement have a 1:1 majority requirement.
In addition, a supermajority of three quarters of the shares represented at the relevant shareholders' meeting is required.
The details must be agreed on by a supermajority of senators, all of them opinionated and some of them nervous about re-election.
Moreover, of those attending a General Meeting, a supermajority of three quarters would be needed to approve such changes.
And requiring a two-thirds supermajority vote of the state legislature to pass a budget in effect paralyzes government.

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