(ecclesiastical) The holding of multiple benefices.
(countable) A state of being numerous.
(countable) A number or part of a whole which is greater than any other number or part, but not necessarily a majority.
(countable) A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast.
(countable) A margin by which a number exceeds another number, especially of votes.
(countable) A group of many entities: a large number.
(countable) A group composed of more than one entity.
(grammar) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
“As socioeconomic transformation deepens, the pluralisation of economic and social interests has become a fact in China.”
“This was a necessary response to the pluralisation of patterns of social and family life.”
“Indeed this is not helped by the unprecedented process of pluralisation and fragmentation of religious authority, comparable to that initiated by the Protestant Reformation.”