senior
senior
Definition
sen·ior (sēn′yər)
adjective
- of the greater age; older: written Sr. after the name of a father whose son has been given exactly the same name
- of higher rank or standing, or longer in service
- ☆ of or for seniors in a high school or college
- of or for senior citizens senior athletes, a senior center
Etymology: ME < L senior, compar. of senex, old: see senate
noun
- a person older than another or others
- a person of greater rank, standing, or length of service
- ☆ a student in the last year of college or the twelfth grade in high school
- senior citizen
one's senior
a person older than oneself
senior
Synonyms
senior
modif.
senior
Synonyms
senior
n.
senior
Usage Examples
Used with adjective complement
- hold: A fellow of the ICSA, he previously held senior Company Secretarial, legal and corporate services positions in a number of industries.
- appoint: Jill was appointed senior Lecturer in Pharmacy in 1993.
Adjective modifier
- low-income: I from country health status to the magnitude of low-income parents seniors.
- Caribbean: And baggage insurance after breakfast her caribbean international seniors.
- international: And baggage insurance after breakfast her caribbean international seniors.
Modifies a noun
- manager: We also coach 1 to 1 the senior managers of many Fortune 500 companies.
- lecturer: Susan was a senior lecturer in social policy at South Bank University for 11 years.
- officer: A 3 per cent basic increase for senior officers from 1 April 2005.
- citizen: The pool was always bustling from babies to senior citizens.
- executive: Several employees, perhaps including highly paid senior executives, may have to give evidence.
- official: Prior to joining the ECA he was a senior official at the World Bank.
Modifying Another Word
- formerly: Fred Abrahams, formerly senior researcher for Human Rights Watch.
- together: The Fiesole series brings together senior executives and policy makers from the publishing, library and academic fields.
- very: But I think if they wanted a cultural change, to get someone very senior to say, " Ring me.
- increasingly: Changing social patterns includes the fact that more women are working and in increasingly senior roles.
- however: However senior sales staff earn on average £ 3,000 more.
- even: When even senior Labor backbenchers have begun to recognize this, so should Gordon.
Noun used with modifier
- audit: Audit Senior 40000 Central London Permanent 15-Jul-2006 00:00 We are looking for audit seniors to join our successful London office.
- parent: I from country health status to the magnitude of low-income parents seniors.
- school: Forty exhuberant high school seniors climb aboard the train for an all-night ride of fun and games.
senior Quotes
Every manwho has lived his life tothe full, should, by the time his senior years are reached, have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.
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