LION'S SHARE

Definition: LION'S SHARE

LION'S SHARE

1. All, or nearly all; the best or largest part; -- from [AE]sop's fable of the lion hunting in company with certain smaller beasts, and appropriating to himself all the prey.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Redundancy

Noun: redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion; (plenty); repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more than enough; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence; (expansion); overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation; (water); avalanche.

Superiority

Supremacy, preeminence; lead; maximum; record; gr/trikumia/, climax; culmination; (summit); transcendence; ne plus ultra; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; excess, surplus; (remainder); (redundancy).

Undueness

Usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption, assumption, seizure; stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's share.

Whole

Bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part; (importance).; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all.

Lion's Share (1973)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

U.S. suppliers of bio-medical products are expected to maintain the lion's share of the market over the next several years. (references)

It is likely that gas technologies will ultimately capture the lion's share of the thermal market, relegating less competitive producers to serving less than 5 percent of demand. (references)

Japan had the lion's share, with 29% of the market in 1999. Japanese companies have been in the Saudi market since the late 1970's. The U.S. has 21% of the market, with the remaining imports coming from Germany, South Korea, Sweden, Canada, France, Italy, Belgium, U.K., and Italy. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

In fact, Asian countries account for the lion's share of investment in Vietnam. (references)

Austria

The lion's share of pet food imports comes from other EU countries, followed by central Europe. (references)

Philippines

Despite supermarket gains, the traditional open-air markets still account for the lion's share of produce and meat sales. (references)

Political Economy

South Africa

Local elections took place in 2000 in all nine provinces and the ANC won control in the lion's share of localities. (references)

Trade

Qatar

Qatar Insurance Company has the lion's share of the market and manages the Government's insurance business. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "LION'S SHARE": the lion's share. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

лъвски пай. (various references)

Dutch

leeuwedeel, leeuweaandeel. (various references)

Finnish

kohtuuttoman suuri osuus. (various references)

French

part léonine, part du lion. (various references)

German

Löwenanteil. (various references)

Hungarian

oroszlánrész (brunt). (various references)

Italian

parte del leone. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

旨い汁 (the cream, the lion's share). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うまいしる (the cream, the lion's share). (various references)

Pig Latin

ion'slay areshay.(various references)

Portuguese

parte de leão, a maior parte (generality). (various references)

Romanian

partea leului (the lion's share). (various references)

Swedish

lejonparten, lejonpart, brorslott. (various references)

Thai

ส่วนแบ่งที่มากที่สุ�". (various references)

Turkish

aslan payı (the lion's share). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hoariness, sensorial.

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