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Kane's idea: "To allow businesses applying for the smoking license to allow minors into the facility as long as the minor is accompanied by an adult."

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  1. adjective Lesser or smaller in amount, extent, or size.
  2. adjective Lesser in importance, rank, or stature: a minor politician.
  3. adjective Lesser in seriousness or danger: a minor injury.
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  • The two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor were allegedly committed by Smith "by displaying to a law enforcement officer posing as a 13-year-old female juvenile, a picture sent through photo share on Yahoo chat," of a sexual nature, Merlo wrote. —  Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines
  • In most states anyone (regardless of age) having a naked photo of a minor is a felony. —  Hartford Advocate: News
  • Kane's idea: "To allow businesses applying for the smoking license to allow minors into the facility as long as the minor is accompanied by an adult." —  Kansas City Kansan Homepage RSS
  • Online solicitation of a minor is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years behind bars and a $10,000 fine. —  Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle
  • Just because a minor is asking for an abortion doesn't mean that she was raped. —  ranchero.com
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  1. Middle English, from Latin; see mei-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English *minour, menour, from Old French manor, French mineur = Spanish Portuguese menor = Italian minore, from Latin minor (neuter minus), less, comparative (with superlative minimus, least: see minim, minimum, etc.) associated with adjective parvus, small; = Anglo-Saxon min = Old Saxon minniro, etc., less: see min.
 

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