Usually means: Greater likelihood or probability shown.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. preponderance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preponderance: Merriam-Webster
  3. preponderance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preponderance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. preponderance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. preponderance: Vocabulary.com
  7. Preponderance, preponderance: Wordnik
  8. preponderance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. preponderance: Wiktionary
  10. preponderance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. preponderance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Preponderance, preponderance: Dictionary.com
  13. preponderance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Preponderance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. preponderance: Rhymezone
  16. Preponderance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. preponderance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. preponderance: FreeDictionary.org
  19. preponderance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. preponderance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. preponderance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. preponderance: Legal dictionary
  4. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)

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  1. preponderance: Encyclopedia

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noun:  Superiority in amount or number; the bulk or majority; also, a large amount or number; an abundance, a profusion.
noun:  Superiority of influence, power, a quality, etc.; an outweighing, predominance, pre-eminence.
noun:  (obsolete) Greater physical weight.
noun:  (specifically, weaponry, historical) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.

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