senioradj.n.
/ˈsiːnɪə/, U.S. /ˈsinjər/ A. adj.
1. † b. Anterior in date, superior in antiquity to.
a. Older, elder; esp. used after a person's name to denote the elder of two bearing the same name in a family; also (after a simple surname) the elder of two boys of the same surname in a school, etc. Abbreviated sen. adj. (U.S. Sr. n.2 2).
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the world > people > person > senior person > [adjective]
morelOE
senior?a1475
sen.1676
senr.1763
primus1765
ma1791
majorc1823
maximus1848
the world > people > person > senior person > [adjective] > in family
senior?a1475
Sr.1936
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 103 Kynge Edwarde the senior.
1496 Rolls of Parl. VI. 518/1 Johannes Robynson de Boston Sen'.
1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 6 Widowes old, and senior chuffs.
a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §311 321 Edward, sirnamed Senior, a nurse-father of the church.
1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling (1672) vi. 138 The grass sprung lately of the ground, and so did he, only he is the senior grass.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 201 The senior four children re-appeared in the drawing-room.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 21 An infant school..kept by the Misses Donaldson... Miss Donaldson, senior, sat at a desk [etc.].
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective]
ererc888
fernOE
oldOE
oldOE
formerc1160
ratherc1330
before-goingc1384
formerc1384
forenexta1400
formea1400
while1399
antecedentc1400
precedentc1400
anteceding?a1425
late1446
whilom1452
preceding?a1475
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further1557
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quondam1598
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preallable1603
prior1607
anterior1608
previal1613
once1620
previous1621
predecessivea1627
antecedaneous?1631
preventive1641
prior1641
precedaneous1645
preventional1649
antegredient1652
senior1655
prevenient1656
precedential1661
antecedental1763
past-gone1784
antevenient1800
aforetime1835
one-time1850
onewhile1882
foretime1894
erstwhile1903
antecedane-
ere-
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 84 Plain-song is much seniour to all Descanting.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 362 He must be Senior to Zaleucus himself.
c. senior citizen, a term for an elderly person, esp. one who is past the age of retirement. Originally U.S.Frequently used in official communications and by the media as a euphemism for ‘old-age pensioner’.
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the world > people > person > old person > [noun]
oldeOE
morea1382
olderc1450
ancient1502
mouldy chopsa1640
antediluvian1648
prediluvian1690
emerit1710
pelt1757
old fogey1793
antique1801
relic1832
old head1838
oldster1846
elderling1863
the Ancient of Days1935
senior citizen1938
OAP1942
golden ager1948
coffin dodger1954
wrinkly1972
crumbly1976
geriatric1977
1938 Time 24 Oct. 12/2 Mr. Downey had an inspiration to do something on behalf of what he calls, for campaign purposes, ‘our senior citizens’.
1956 School & Society (U.S.) 12 May 169 As a basis for their education, it [sc. pragmatism] is good for the young, the middle-aged, and our senior citizens.
1962 British Advent Messenger 28 Sept. 30/2 Owing to the extensive alterations to be done it was October 27, 1958, before we could welcome any of those dear senior citizens who were so anxiously waiting to enter the Home.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iv. 90 Vesperhaven House, a home for senior citizens that Inverarity had put up.
1969 Listener 23 Jan. 101/2 More organised resistance came from the ‘senior citizen’—or ‘old age pensioners’—lobby.
1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World iv. 56 We staggered up the bank to the village like senior citizens en route to the post office to collect their pensions.
1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn xxi. 192 She is a retired person, a senior citizen, you might say.
2.
a. That ranks before others in virtue of longer service or tenure of a position; superior to others in standing. the senior service: the navy as distinguished from the army.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > [adjective] > superior
greata1382
higha1400
seniora1513
superordinate1615
high-ranking1850
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > [noun] > the British navy
the king's (also queen's) navya1382
Royal Navy1583
the navy royal1601
the fleet1712
RN?1791
the senior service1899
silent service1904
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xx. sig. g.vi Bycause that Werburge, in order was senyoure Her mother Ermenylde, gaue her the sufferaynte.
1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) VII. 245 You are aware that he is senior to Marshal Beresford.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xxiv. 225 The Inner and Middle Temple..are the two senior Inns.
1899 Hope Huntly Our Code of Honour xxii ‘It was my heart's desire in boyhood to enter the senior service’. ‘Then why did you not?’ ‘Oh, I yielded to my mother; she was keen on the army.’
1911 London Mag. Oct. 264 The Admiral turned round... ‘The Army’, he said gaily, ‘comes to the rescue of the senior Service’.
b. In school and college use. (a) Applied to a pupil or student who has been longer under tuition than another (const. to). (b) Applied to a student who is no longer a freshman; in the U.S. to a student in his last year or term. (c) In certain universities, used in designations connoting a specific standing, as senior sophister n. Also Senior Fellow, a term applied at Cambridge and Dublin to a select number of the fellows of longest standing in a college, in whom the whole or the greater part of its government was formerly vested; at Oxford in the 18th cent. sometimes applied to those fellows who had graduated, as distinguished from the undergraduate fellows. senior student (Christ Church, Oxford): see student n.1
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > governing body > member(s) of
fellow1584
curator1612
overseer1643
senior1645
Senior Fellow1651
regent1790
society > education > learning > learner > [adjective] > senior pupil or student
seniorc1790
1651 G. Langbaine Foundation Univ. Oxf. 4 Merton Colledge..twelve Schollers, whereof nine should serve the nine seniour Fellows.
1651 Langbaine Found. Univ. Cambr. 9 Kings Colledge... In which Colledge at this present is a Provost, 70 Fellows and Scholars,..besides 12 servitors to the seniour Fellows, 6 poor Scholars, with other Students.
1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. ii. 36 Your Father was a Senior-Fellow, and your Mother was an Air-pump.
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1726) xl. 212 He would give his vote, that every senior-fellow in the college should have a living tack'd to his fellowship.
1744 T. Birch Life R. Boyle 69 Mr. Tallents..became senior fellow and president or vice-master of his college [Magdalene, Cambridge].
c1790 B. Martyn & A. Kippis Life 1st Earl Shaftesbury (1836) I. 42 On a particular day, the senior under-graduates, in the evening, called the fresh-men to the fire, and made them hold out their chins.
1877 in Worthington's Pract. Physics (1881) Introd. 1 I should be inclined to discontinue Physical Laboratory work in schools, except in the case of senior boys.
c. In quasi-superlative sense, applied to the officer, student, etc. who is highest in seniority among those of his own grade.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > [adjective] > superior > chief
chiefc1330
senior1847
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxx. 264 The stout senior Major, who led the regiment into action.
1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. i. 4 The senior pupil was standing with his back to the fire.
d. In commercial use, applied to the partner in a firm who (whether on account of length of standing or for other reasons) has precedence of the rest in the formal enumeration of the members.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [adjective] > type of partner
senior1864
1864 R. B. Kimball Was he Successful? 209 Mr. Tenant..was..the senior member of the house of Allwise, Tenant & Co.
e. Stock Market. Applied to securities the owners of which have first claim to be repaid by the issuing company. Cf. junior stock n. at junior adj. and n. Special uses.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [adjective] > types of securities
unissued1703
preferable1837
ordinary1866
pre-preference1867
gilt-edge1880
gilt-edged1881
unlisted1882
voting1883
assented1907
voteless1908
senior1914
well-traded1936
medium-dated1943
off-board1943
go-go1966
unquoted1969
alpha1984
gamma1986
1914 H. Halford Dict. Stock Market Terms (ed. 2) 79 Senior stocks. Debentures and Preference Stocks carrying a fixed rate of interest and ranking for dividend in priority to the Ordinary and Deferred Stocks.
1925 H. Parkinson ABC of Stocks & Shares 63 Among the ‘senior’ securities of the large railway companies the investor may roam at will.
1939 Mead & Grodinsky Ebb & Flow of Investment Values i. 5 Granted these formal requirements in ratios, priorities, and margins of safety, the senior securities of certain industries secured by certain forms of property,..are recommended.
1964 P. Wyckoff Dict. Stock Market Terms 238 Senior Securities. Bonds and preferred stock which receive prior consideration when a corporation fails or is being dissolved.
3. In certain Cambridge University terms, used to connote a pre-eminence in rank having no relation to length of standing. senior wrangler n. the head of the ‘wranglers’, i.e. of the first class of those who are successful in the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge. senior-wranglership n. senior classic n. the student who takes the first place in the Classical Sciences Tripos. senior moralist n. the student who takes the first place in the Moral Sciences Tripos. (In consequence of the reforms of 1906–9, the status indicated by these titles has ceased to exist, the class-lists being now arranged not in order of merit but alphabetically). senior optime n. one who is placed in the second class in the Mathematical Tripos. (See optime n.)
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > candidates > who passes > passing at university > placed in tripos
optime1658
wrangler1750
opt1755
optimate1792
wooden spoon1803
spoon1824
op1828
senior wrangler1831
wedge1852
senior classic1859
society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > candidates > who passes > passing at university > placed in tripos > position of
wranglership1791
wooden spoon1803
senior-wranglership1878
1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 2 Jan. (1874) II. 101 Maule was senior wrangler and senior medallist at Cambridge, and is a lawyer.
1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home v. 60 Of course you intend to be senior classic, or senior wrangler?
1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (1894) 44 Each perambulating infant Had a magic in its squall, For my eager eye detected Senior Wranglers in them all.
1878 Latham in Encycl. Brit. VIII. 778 The éclat attaching to the ‘tripos list’ and the senior wranglership.
4. Of institutions, associations, etc. reserved for the senior members of a body, as senior common-room, senior mess, etc.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > common rooms
common chamber1668
combination-room1675
common room1683
senior common-room1774
J.C.R.1892
middle common room1958
common area1996
1774 J. Woodforde Diary 14 Jan. (1924) I. 122 We all went into the Senr Common Room.
1959 M. Bradbury Eating People is Wrong i. 28 As Treece was leaving the Senior Common Room..the Vice-Chancellor appeared in the doorway.
1981 E. North Dames iii. 41 They were in the Senior Common Room standing by the first school photograph.
B. n. An elder person. literal and figurative.† 2. In early translations of the New Testament, used to render Latin senior, Greek πρεσβύτερος, in various applications, where the later versions have elder. Hence occasionally used as the designation of the class of ministers called ‘elders’ or ‘presbyters’ in the primitive church, or in communities professedly formed on the model of this. Obsolete.
1.
a. One superior or worthy of deference and reverence by reason of age; one having pre-eminence in dignity by priority of election, appointment, etc.
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the world > people > person > senior person > [noun]
elderc1175
seniorc1380
elder mana1387
older1484
ancient1548
dad?1576
doyen1670
dean1687
daddy1877
key man1895
doyenne1905
society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > senior
ealdormanOE
seniorc1380
elder1382
seneka1400
ancient1534
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 303 Non drede siche seniours ben fendis þat speken lying in ypocrisie.
c1440 York Myst. xli. 78 Symeon, that senyour.
1482 Monk of Evesham 31 When the bretheren had begunne matens y mette with a senyor that ye knowe wele in the chirche porch.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xi. sig. d.iiiv Folowynge the counseyll, and mynde of a senyor.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 360 The diuine senior Hippocrates.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 23 Meet then the Senior, far renown'd for sense, With rev'rent awe, but decent confidence.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. vi. 137 His conversation, tricks, and songs, were..entertaining to the..younger brethren, and so unedifying in the opinion of the seniors of the fraternity, that [etc.].
1905 W. Tuckwell Reminisc. Radical Parson xii. 159 Its castellan was a dignified, sweet-visaged senior.
b. With possessive.
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c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 17 In the begynnynge of this areysed frame oure senyoures tellid vs that one a day at evensong tyme whan derkenys drew vpon ther was seyn a light from heuyn.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. ii. 10 Boy. By a familier demonstration of the working, my tough signeor. Arma. Why tough signeor? Why tough signeor [1623 signeur] ? View more context for this quotation
1678 R. Cudworth tr. Herodotus in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 211 Hesiod and Homer, were..not above four hundred years my Seniors [Gk. μευ πρεσβυτέρους].
1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. i. i. 10 Though much her senior, he was by no means of an age to render his addressing her an impropriety.
1829 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 128 His senior at the bar.
1862 F. W. Robinson Owen iv. vi She was a year or two my senior.
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society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > elder > [noun]
priestOE
senior1382
presbyter1528
lay elder1593
ruling elder1593
presbyter-bishop1654
lay presbyter1656
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. vii. 11 And alle aungels stoden in cumpas of the trone and of [the] senyouris or eldre.
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 233/26 Þan prayed for þis childe þe xxiiij seniores; and so þis childe was forgyffen his tryspas.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvi. f. xxxixv The chefe prestes, and the seniours, and all the counsell, sought false witnes ageinste Iesus.
1564 Briefe Exam. *****iij Whence were Seniours in the primitiue Churche?
1572 J. Field & T. Wilcox Admon. to Parl. sig. B And to these three ioyntly, that is, the Ministers, Seniors, and Deacons, is yt whole regiment of the church to be committed.
1582 Bible (Rheims) Rev. iv. 4 Upon the thrones foure and twentie seniors sitting.
3.
a. In school and college use: One of the more advanced students; also one no longer a freshman. In U.S. a student in his fourth year.
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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > senior pupil or student
senior1612
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xxvi. 272 That the two or fowre Seniors in each fourme, be as Vshers in that fourme.
1741 Customs of Harvard in B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (1851) 318 No Freshman shall be saucy to his Senior.
1836 O. W. Holmes Song Centenn. Celebr. Harvard 39 Lord! how the seniors knocked about The freshman class of one.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cii. 453 In an American college the students..of the fourth year [are called] seniors.
b. A senior fellow of a college; a member of a council or deliberative assembly for managing the internal affairs of a college. Cf. seniority n. 3.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > governing body > member(s) of
fellow1584
curator1612
overseer1643
senior1645
Senior Fellow1651
regent1790
1645 Ordin. Parl. Regul. Univ. Cambr. 3 The Government of Trinity Colledge is setled in the Master and eight Seniors.
1648 T. Winyard Midsummer-moone 3 Doctors and Seniors are too tough for continuall cramming, he must have Batchellers of art [etc.].
1717 E. Miller Acct. Univ. Cambr. 109 The 11th and 12th Statutes [Trin. Coll.] concern the Election of Officers, Lecturers, Seniors, College Preachers, and Fellows; and appoints first, That the Master read this Statute before the eight Seniors; then he and the Seniors are to take an Oath, That they will elect no-body to any Office by Favour, &c. but him only whom [etc.]
4. With the. The familiar name of the United Service and Royal Aero Club.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > other specific associations or organizations
Tityre-tu1623
Peep o' Day Boys1780
law society1821
kongsi1839
B'nai B'rith1862
Molly Maguire1867
Kennel Club1874
Ethical Society1877
Kyrle Society1877
Molly1877
Sierra Club1891
subak1897
Workers' Educational Association1905
senior1906
W.E.A.1910
Lions Club1922
godless1927
F.P.A.a1940
Diners' Club1950
amnesty1961
Sealed Knot1971
Greenpeace1972
lions1972
Gaysoc1976
Group of Eight1977
Group of Seven1977
meeja1983
G71986
G81988
1906 G. W. E. Russell Social Silhouettes xxviii. 195 If he is an old soldier, he is eligible for ‘The Senior’, and may make free with the Duke of Wellington's dry sherry and Dugald Stewart's still drier library.
1974 Financial Times 29 June 15/3 Commander James Allen, secretary of the United Services and Royal Aero (which is widely known in club circles as the Senior), [etc.].
1974 R. McDouall Clubland Cooking 11 Going west from Trafalgar Square we come first to the United Service Club, known as ‘The Senior’, because it was for senior officers of the Army and Navy.
1975 Sunday Times 25 May 24/1 The closure of the Senior will shake all the generals and admirals who have taken it for granted since 1815.
Compounds
C1. Compounds of the adjective.
senior class n. U.S. a class in college or high school made up of students in their fourth year of academic study.
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1766 T. Clap Ann. Yale-Coll. 14 The Senior Class were removed to Milford.
1837 Stat. Harvard Univ. 11 The third vacation for the Senior Class shall begin one day before the general vacation.
1900 C. W. Winchester Victories of Wesley Castle 25 Wesley and Chester went to the city of Dorchester on some business for the senior class.
1980 Redbook Oct. 231/2 I couldn't go on the senior-class trip to Washington.
senior college n. U.S. a college in which the last two years' work for the bachelor's degree is done.
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1899 Univ. of Chicago Reg. 1898–9 37/1 The Faculties of the Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science have been organized as follows:..(2) The Faculty of the Senior Colleges [etc.].
1942 Bull. Vanderbilt Univ. 15 May 69 The College is divided, for certain purposes, into the Junior College and the Senior College.
1977 Information Please Almanac for 1978 826 (heading) Accredited U.S. Senior Colleges and Universities.
senior high n. (also senior high school) North American a secondary school comprising the three (or four) upper high school grades (cf. junior high n. at junior adj. and n. Special uses (school)).
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > secondary school
high schoolc1417
academyc1550
real school1765
central school1794
secondary school1809
real scholar1822
lyceum1827
Realschule1833
gymnasium1834
continuation-school1837
college1841
lycée1865
middle school1870
high1871
senior school1871
senior high1909
secondary modern school1943
comprehensive1947
secondary1962
community college1967
multilateral1967
sec-mod1968
1909 Ann. Rep. Bd. Educ. (Columbus, Ohio) 29 You have established a Junior High School..leaving the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades for the Senior High Schools.
1949 Los Angeles Times 23 June ii. 5/1 Then they enter senior high school, and become ‘juniors’ and then seniors.
1955 W. G. Hardy Alberta Golden Jubilee Anthol. 174 In Senior High, the new Composite School is changing the educational picture again; large school plants are being designed for the teaching of technical, commercial and academic subjects.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 422/1 The elementary-secondary sequence overall is 12 years in length.., but the subdivisions of these years are various:..six-three-three (elementary school, junior high school, and senior high school), [etc.].
senior school n. a school, or part of a school, for older children.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > secondary school
high schoolc1417
academyc1550
real school1765
central school1794
secondary school1809
real scholar1822
lyceum1827
Realschule1833
gymnasium1834
continuation-school1837
college1841
lycée1865
middle school1870
high1871
senior school1871
senior high1909
secondary modern school1943
comprehensive1947
secondary1962
community college1967
multilateral1967
sec-mod1968
1871 Minutes of School Board for London I. 156 Public elementary day schools are conveniently classified into infant schools, for children below seven years of age; junior schools, for children between seven and ten years of age; and senior schools, for older children.
1930 Times 26 Mar. 12/1 The first step in reorganization is to group all the senior children from 11 upwards in separate senior schools or departments or ‘senior tops’.
1931 Educ. Outlook 8 183/1 The organisation of curricula in the new senior school.
1963 H. C. Barnard & J. A. Lauwerys Handbk. Brit. Educ. Terms 175 Senior School, (1) An obsolete term used to describe the free non-selective post-primary schools (age~group 11–14) established under the pre-1944 elementary code. They provided a course of general studies with some vocational bias... (2) A term sometimes used to describe the top classes/forms of a grammar or public school.
1963 Punch 27 Feb. 302/2 A girl going into the senior school [at Roedean]..could wear her djibbah until she left at eighteen.
senior year n. U.S. the fourth and last year of a high school or college course.
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1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 420 The undergraduates are not permitted to attend them [sc. medical lectures] till their senior year.
1924 S. S. Colvin Introd. High School Teaching 12 A number of high schools offer in their senior year a vocational course.
C2. Compounds of the noun.† senior-junior n. Obsolete a person old and young at the same time.
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the world > people > person > person young and old > [noun]
senior-junior1598
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 175 This signior Iunios gyant dwarffe, dan Cupid.
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senior management n. the highest level of management in an organization, immediately below the director or board of directors; the managers at this level viewed collectively; cf. middle management n. at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > manager > collectively
management1740
house1776
senior management1882
1882 Graphic 4 Mar. 207/1 Mr. Bancroft sat on the right of his illustrious host [sc. the Prince of Wales] by virtue of the fact that he now represents the senior management in London.
1923 N.Y. Times 6 Mar. 4/1 (advt.) Retirement of senior management offers unusual opportunity to acquire substantial interest.
1988 D. Lodge Nice Work i. iii. 54 Each Faculty should nominate a member of staff to ‘shadow’ some person employed at senior management level in local manufacturing industry.
2012 E. D. Hess & J. Liedtka Physics of Business Growth v. 81 Ideas that should have been killed were..funded for years..because of the reluctance of senior management to admit failure.
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senior moment n. colloquial humorous an instance or short period of forgetfulness or confusion, such as might be experienced by an elderly person.
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1996 Re: probably Most Stupid Question to ask in this Group in rec.food.cooking (Usenet newsgroup) 3 May Please ignore this person. He is obviously suffering from a senior moment.
2003 Yours Oct. 5/1 Have you had one recently? A senior moment that is? Where you've heard yourself saying or doing something silly, absent-minded or unaccountable.
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senior kindergarten n. North American Education (now chiefly Canadian) an advanced level of kindergarten, now usually the second of two kindergarten grades (cf. junior kindergarten n. at junior adj. and n. Additions).
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1901 Daily News (Naugatuck, Connecticut) 26 Feb. In the New Britain school there are 78 graduates,..15 in the senior kindergarten class.
1945 Winnipeg Free Press 5 July 8/2 Those attending..will be taught junior and senior kindergarten methods.
2002 Today's Parent (Electronic ed.) July 82 The balance started shifting the summer after senior kindergarten, when Ty panicked about advancing to grade-one school work.
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