junior1 adjectivejunior2 noun
juniorjunior1 ●●● W3 adjective [only before noun] 
WORD ORIGINjunior1
Origin:
1200-1300 Latin ‘younger’, from juvenis ‘young’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a junior partner
- She started work as a junior reporter on a local newspaper.
- The most junior officers wore a red stripe on their sleeves.
- At first it feels like high school, then junior high, and finally grade school.
- At least 20 of the rebel junior officers who staged the uprising surrendered by late afternoon.
- By 1990, District 4 boasted 21 junior high schools, plus six alternative grade schools.
- He started to learn the bagpipes at the age of nine and won several junior prizes.
- He was also second in the Yorkshire Championships at Harrogate and is currently junior champion of Yorkshire.
- In junior high, she refined them, sent them off to contests, then scribbled more.
- In my junior year a friend, a fledgling pilot, taught me the basics of handling a small plane.
THESAURUS
not old: · a young man of about 22· My dad died when I was young.· There are excellent facilities for young children.· Young people are often unable to get jobs.
a small child is very young. Little sounds more informal than small, and is used especially in spoken English: · They have two small children.· We used to go camping a lot when the kids were little.
[only before noun] between the ages of 13 and 19: · a group of teenage boys· They have three teenage children.
especially written at the age when you change from being a child into an adult – used especially when talking about the problems that young people have at this age: · Sudden mood changes are common in adolescent girls.· adolescent behaviour
[only before noun] formal connected with young people who commit crime: · juvenile crime· a special prison for juvenile offenders· juvenile delinquents (=young people who commit crimes)
especially written seeming young, or typical of someone who is young – often used about someone who is no longer young: · a youthful 55-year-old· youthful enthusiasm· Andrew still has a slim youthful look about him.· The photograph showed a youthful, smiling Rose.
connected with sports played by young people rather than adults: · the junior championships· the junior champion
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who is in a lower position than someone else a junior doctor, officer etc does not have as much power or responsibility as other doctors, officers etc, especially because he or she has not been in the job for very long: · She started work as a junior reporter on a local newspaper.· The most junior officers wore a red stripe on their sleeves.
: assistant manager/editor/principal etc someone whose job is just below the position of a manager, editor etc: · My mother is assistant principal at a school in Washington, D.C.· Noll, an assistant coach with the Colts, was hired by the Steelers as head coach.
someone who has a lower position and less authority than someone else in an organization: · Costello will have five direct subordinates.· The idea of being evaluated by subordinates makes some managers uneasy.
if people are under someone in authority, they work for that person and have a lower position: · She has at least 40 people under her at Shell.· Several of the employees under him complained of his bullying behavior.
to have someone as your manager: · McKellon will report to Alan Selles, the company's chairman.· Alan has five members of the production team reporting to him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
the second semester of my junior yearCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The group is a junior partner (=less important group) in the PLO’s governing coalition.
1having a low rank in an organization or profession OPP senior: the second semester of my junior year· The cycling team includes British junior champion, Andrew Wright.
· The company also offers substantial bonuses to senior employees.
(=with a higher or lower rank)· A senior member of the government has resigned.
The group is a junior partner (=less important group) in the PLO’s governing coalition.· I left school and was offered a junior position in a bank.
· He was offered a junior post in a bank.
· He held a junior rank in the infantry.
· I have taken on board the comments of my senior staff.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· There were more junior officials around them, and Pink was the centre of attention.· A: Historically, do the smaller airlines have more junior pilots?· Finally, on June 29, Pérez accepted the resignations of six Cabinet ministers and five more junior government members.
· Invite the most junior person in your department to sit in on your executive meeting.· We were the two most junior warrant officers in the company.· Abdullah was the equivalent of a constable, the most junior career rank, almost on a par with conscripts.· Unfortunately, circumcision is often delegated to the most junior surgeons and its potential morbidity underestimated.· Today, he is hiding behind the most junior available Minister in another Department.· At the most junior level there are the students, about whom we have spoken already.· The most junior of these acts as a regional supervisor who manages the activities of area staff.· Again the most senior teachers in schools are the least negative in this regard and the most junior the most negative.
· No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior.· I don't know who it was made the decision, I was only a very junior Producer.· It was to this great tradition, though as a self-confessedly very junior follower, that Lewis quite easily and naturally belonged.· He was a young and hopeful solicitor, still very junior in the practice.
NOUN· The most impressive winner of the afternoon was North-East junior champion Michael Threadgill.· He was also second in the Yorkshire Championships at Harrogate and is currently junior champion of Yorkshire.
· Simon, a reserve for the world junior championship this month, won the junior men's event.
· Payments are probably dealt with by some junior clerk who applies his or her own interpretation of what the company wants.· He was junior clerk under Peter Marro.· Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers.· The junior clerk in the Profitboss's team is a prospect.· Each of these six departments had two or three clerks or junior clerks to assist them in the work.· It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph, as a junior clerk.· He first appears in the records as a junior clerk or singing-man in Henry VI's chapel royal, in 1441.· He's prepared to help whoever he meets, be it a trade union leader, a consultant or a junior clerk.
· Even junior clubs were holding on to their players.· And what a great innovation the Provincial Insurance Cup for junior clubs has been.
· Football columnist Ralph the Rover, for example, and his junior colleague Wanderer.· Very few fully appreciated their profound influence on their junior colleagues.· Together the three senior men debriefed their two junior colleagues for several hours.
· In Quebec, this was adapted to cover late secondary, junior college, and university work.· It was a great gallery for a junior college.· Four defensive starters are freshmen, two others are sophomores, and another is a first-year junior college transfer.· Cal has only one other kicker in junior college transfer Tim Wolleck, whom Brache beat out during fall camp.· Junior Dan Nash, a 6-0 junior college transfer from Pierce College, is the setter.· Since 1961, the new junior college had been making do with the evening hours at Chula Vista High School.· Two rows behind the bench sits a sweet-faced junior college girl who just announced her intention to play for Oregon next year.· A junior college recruit she had great hopes for is not coming along fast enough.
· We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals.· But many junior doctors are unhappy about what they have seen of the new deal so far.· One was a junior doctor at a London hospital with pale skin and frizzy hair.· Medical students and junior doctors seek it.· Firstly, many junior doctors have little understanding of what medical research is all about.· Discuss with junior doctors how to allocate extra resources to reduce hours.
· At first it feels like high school, then junior high, and finally grade school.· It stays together throughout the students' two junior high and four high school years at Thayer.· In junior high I worked on the school newspaper and made cartoons.· By junior high, she knew she wanted to play college ball.· At this point, going to junior high is expensive enough.· Before long, the junior highs were competing for students.
· He wanted to be considered for junior management positions but his company was not sure of his ability to make this step.· As a result there was only a vestigial junior management system.· Everywhere negative feelings were expressed about supervisors and junior management as a role.· Crusaders fifth Dubliner John Cleary has gone into junior management down south.
· Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff.· Teenagers were allowed in the project as junior members of the regular rural work force.· The paper had been running a series of articles on junior members of the Government and it was Berowne's turn.· He was determined to resurrect the Liberalism of Cambridge, and turn it into a force among junior members of the university.· It had to be known by employees to do their jobs and was widely known by relatively junior members of staff.· An all-out attack by a junior on a senior at a meeting is usually costly, especially if the junior member wins.· There have also been a few cases where junior members have successfully challenged senior colleagues in contests for sub committee chairmanships.
· Smith, admitting he had an unreported business relationship with the department store owner, resigned as junior minister for Northern Ireland.· Mrs Thatcher duly sacked the junior minister, space enthusiast Geoffrey Pattie.· He was a few weeks short of his fiftieth birthday, a somewhat elderly junior minister.· Trouble began when a mistaken claim by a junior Minister persuaded many people to stop buying eggs.
· This secures extra teaching for the junior nurse, and the senior student will herself learn from this role.· The junior nurse should also be involved in teaching.· To a junior nurse it may appear that surgical nursing is negative in its aims.· During training the student will learn from many teachers, and the junior nurse can be confused by apparent differences and contradictions.· As a junior nurse it is important that you receive extra instruction and practice under supervision before caring for these patients.· A junior nurse would probably believe her.· A strike by junior nurses, soon after the election, had ended after the government promised to review their case.
· At least 20 of the rebel junior officers who staged the uprising surrendered by late afternoon.· Beginning with the junior officer present, all voted to surrender but two...· I served with Marks before the war and he showed great promise even as a junior officer.· He refused evacuation until he was certain his junior officer was in control of the situation.· Ron McGregor, a junior officer with me on Vincent was not a regular Commander of the new Vigilant.· Twice he had seriously wounded men in duels, and finally he had run another junior officer through in a tavern brawl.· In March 1988, a group of junior officers attempted a coup.· A junior officer was suspended from duty following the May 12 incidents.
· There were more junior officials around them, and Pink was the centre of attention.· Senior officials have a duty to protect junior officials and to set standards for those lower down.· If this advice had come only from junior officials, he might have been able to over-rule it.· While there, they briefly met junior officials in the Bush campaign.· In some unions, officials may then exert position power and give instructions to members or junior officials.
· The plaintiff was the senior partner and the defendant the junior partner.· Through the oil cartels, the United States dealt some stinging slaps to its junior partners.· This was J.P. Morgan's forerunner and whose junior partner was Pierpont.· But to be an ally of the West is of course to be a junior partner.· The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner.· The resumption has shaken the Green party, the junior partner in Chancellor Gerhard Schro der's coalition.
· Phil Fearon, the soul singer, went to junior school with me.· Abingdon junior school could now be on the road to a Wembley final in a national six-a-side competition.· Your child's pre-school days and infant and junior school years are vital in his future development.· Some junior school Heads think it is a waste of good scholarship studying time.· Shanti made many friends in junior school.· There were three or four cars lined up outside the junior school gates.· Think of life on earth as junior school and the spirit as the pupil.· I was in one home for three years when I was at junior school.
· To assist and encourage and supervise where appropriate junior staff in the proper performance of their duties.· The inexperience of the junior staff was not accidental.· In the meantime, if you want to ask questions, come to me, not to my junior staff.· More junior staff came, who were to be a great help to us.· Writing of definitions and selection of illustrative quotations by junior staff.· The art of palpating for a pyloric mass should be taught by experienced senior staff to junior staff and students.· I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same.· Some suppliers' representatives are highly adept at pressurising junior staff into placing orders.
· Many ex-international union players are still turning out every Saturday for junior teams.· Wilkinson was switched when a player in a Grimsby junior team was injured.
· We had cheerleaders for varsity football and boys basketball and even junior varsity cheerleaders for both teams.· The student was beaten outside the cafeteria while using the phone after a junior varsity football practice.· At the time, Iacenda was 14 years old and in the ninth grade, playing on the junior varsity team.· Mary's he played junior varsity lacrosse.
· He did better junior year, despite the fact that he spent nearly all of it arguing with the priests.· I look older than I am, at the butt end of my junior year of high school.· When he took the SATs in his junior year, he scored an even 1600.· His junior year at Boulder High I went to all his home soccer games.· He showed dramatic improvement from his junior year to his senior year.· During the second semester of her junior year, Maggie had what was to prove to be a very positive experience.· Students in the program participate in three progressive summer internships, starting after their junior year in high school.· My junior year, I was one step higher.
a junior doctorjunior to There are several people junior to me (=with a lower rank than me).2relating to sport for young people below a particular age: the junior football club3 British English relating to a school for children below the age of 11: the junior classrooms4 American English relating to the year before the final year of high school or college: the second semester of my junior year → senior1junior1 adjectivejunior2 noun
juniorjunior2 ●○○ noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a junior at NYU
- Donna spent spring semester of her junior year in Paris.
- He was replaced by a young graduate, 10 years his junior.
- Sarah is six years my junior.
- Even if it s one of the juniors pissing around on their computer and modem.
- I find it tough to delegate my work to juniors, to the associates.
- Joann was a junior and had a beautiful singing voice.
- More than 30 players, including juniors and novices will be competing.
- Otton, the junior who shared time with Kyle Wachholtz at quarterback, started and did not relinquish the position.
- The good behaviour of our own Club members are still attending with some of the older juniors replacing retiring senior members.
- The other reason she had disappeared with the juniors was that it kept her out of Jack's way.
THESAURUSdescribing someone’s position in an organization
used about someone who has an important position in an organization. Senior can also be used about someone who has a higher position than you in an organization: · a senior executive· She’s a senior partner in a law firm.· She is senior to me.
[only before noun] used, especially in job titles, about someone who has the most important or one of the most important positions in an organization: · Carole is the company’s chief financial officer.· He’s the chief economist at Hangseng Bank.
[only before noun] used about someone who has a high position in an organization such as the government, the army, or the police: · high-ranking government officials· a high-ranking police officer
[only before noun] used about someone who is very good, important, or successful in their job: · a top lawyer· He’s one of the president’s top aides.· top diplomats
used about someone who has a low position in an organization. Junior can also be used about someone who has a lower position than you in an organization: · a junior clerk· a junior doctor· His role as naval officer was junior to Nelson.
[only before noun] an assistant manager, director, editor etc has a position just below a manager etc: · He’s an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard University.· She became assistant director at the Belgrade Theatre.
Longman Language Activatora group of students in a school, college etc a group of students or schoolchildren who are taught together: · There are twenty kids in the class.· She gets along well with the other children in her class.· I'm going out with some friends from my dance class.· I graduated in 1999. What class were you in?
a class or group of classes for children of a particular age in an American school: third/seventh/twelfth etc grade: · She's in the fifth grade.· I really liked my eighth grade math teacher.· The second grade class is doing a play about the Pilgrims.
a class or a group of classes for all the children of the same age in a British school for children between 11 and 18: · She's by far the brightest pupil in the form.third/fourth/fifth etc form: · I'm in the third form.· Mrs Davies took the fifth form to the science museum.
all the classes for children of a particular age in a British school or for students in a particular year of study at a British university: · He works a lot harder than most of the students in his year.third/fourth/fifth etc year: · There are 130 children in the second year.· I hated teaching the fifth year. They were always causing trouble.
a class for children with a particular level of ability in a British school: · She's in set one for maths and English and set two for history.· I was useless at school -- always in the bottom set in every subject.· We think you've improved sufficiently to go up to a higher set.
American someone who is in the first year at a high school or university: · We were only freshmen, so the older kids liked to pick on us.freshman class/year/course etc: · Chris remembers his freshman year at UCLA as if it were yesterday.
American someone who is in the second year at a high school or university: · This class is mainly for freshmen and sophomores.sophomore class/year etc: · George dropped out of college his sophomore year.
American someone who is in the third year at a high school or university: · a junior at NYUjunior class/year etc: · Donna spent spring semester of her junior year in Paris.
American someone who is in the fourth and final year at a high school or university: · I can't believe that Cari is a high school senior already.senior class/year etc: · The entire senior class took a trip to Disneyworld.
younger than someone else · At school, the younger children go home an hour before the rest.· He is the most influential of the younger French photographers.
: ten years/18 months etc somebody's junior formal ten years, etc younger than someone else: · Sarah is six years my junior.· He was replaced by a young graduate, 10 years his junior.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The group is a junior partner (=less important group) in the PLO’s governing coalition.
· The cycling team includes British junior champion, Andrew Wright.
· The company also offers substantial bonuses to senior employees.
(=with a higher or lower rank)· A senior member of the government has resigned.
The group is a junior partner (=less important group) in the PLO’s governing coalition.· I left school and was offered a junior position in a bank.
· He was offered a junior post in a bank.
· He held a junior rank in the infantry.
· I have taken on board the comments of my senior staff.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· I signed up for Naval service when I was a high school junior in 1974 and was put on delayed enlistment.· Many states already have options that allow high school juniors and seniors to take courses at public colleges and universities for credit.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► Junior
1be two/five/ten etc years somebody’s junior (also be somebody’s junior by two/five/ten etc years) written to be two, five, ten etc years younger than someone: - His wife's name was Sarah; she was five years his junior, and she predeceased him by ten months.
- The 42-year-old princess married Commander Tim Laurence, who is five years her junior, just before Christmas.
She married a man seven years her junior.2[countable] a young person who takes part in sport for people below a particular age: The juniors use the courts on Tuesday night.3[countable] especially British English someone who has a low rank in an organization or profession: an office junior4[countable] British English a child who goes to a junior school5[countable] American English a student in the year before the final year of high school or college → freshman, senior2(1), sophomore6Junior American English spoken a name used humorously when speaking to or about a boy or a younger man, especially your son: Where’s Junior?