senior1 adjectivesenior2 noun
seniorsenior1 ●●● W2 adjective 
WORD ORIGINsenior1
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin ‘older’, from senex ‘old’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a job in senior management
- He's a senior executive at Volkswagen.
- Mr. Swenson is the senior partner in his law firm.
- one of the country's most senior judges
- A rectangular conference table and four chairs, of a type provided for senior public servants, stood between the tall windows.
- Its steering group consists of very senior figures from education and business.
- Most remarkable was the language used by some senior members of the judiciary.
- That left him with one explanation for the rarity of polygamy in sparrows: The senior wives do not stand for it.
- The senior members remained in Shelley and Kirkburton but a new branch was now established further south.
- The move caught top military officers and senior members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees by surprise.
- The Organization Man of the fifties was promoted to senior executive in the sixties and seventies.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who has a high position
a senior manager, official etc is one who has an important position in an organization or company: · He's a senior executive at Volkswagen.· a job in senior management· one of the country's most senior judges
: top manager/lawyer/executive etc someone who has one of the most powerful jobs in business, or one of the most important jobs in a profession: · The President met with top Korean businessmen.· a top fashion designer
: a high-ranking officer/official/member etc someone who has a high position in an organization like the police or army, or in a government department, but not in business: · A high-ranking State Department official was accused of selling secret information.· a high-ranking officer in the air force
: head waiter/chef/coach etc the most important waiter etc, who is in charge of the others: · Don Shula became the youngest head coach in NFL history.· The head counsellor commented that substance abuse was pervasive at the school.
to be in a higher position than someone else in a higher position than someone else in an organization or company: · It's not the staff that are the problem. It's the people above them.· The next person above him is the sales manager.
to be in a higher position than someone else in an organization or company: · Technically I'm senior to Smith, but we do more or less the same job.· The men said they had no problems taking orders from women senior to them in rank.
your superior in the organization you work for is the person who has a higher rank than you: · He failed to follow a direct order from his superior.· Women who have been harassed by male superiors often don't complain because they are afraid of losing their jobs.
also rank American to be in a higher position in an organization, especially the army: · Successful sales staff will outrank less successful workers, regardless of qualifications.· Because Barnett ranks him, they have to be discreet about their romance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYnouns
top executives on high salaries It is difficult to retain top management. a member of the senior management team The senior partner has retired. I had a senior moment and just couldn’t think of his name.
1having a higher position, level, or rank: · Within the week senior management approved her proposal.
· Some senior staff criticized the headteacher's behaviour.
· She's now a senior manager for a large toy company.
(=in a company)· All the company's senior executives get large bonuses.
(=in an organization)· a meeting of senior government officials
(=in the police or military)· Inspector Wild is the senior officer in charge of the investigation.
(=in a law firm etc)· He was a senior partner in a prestigious Canadian law firm.
· The president announced a reshuffle involving several senior members of his Cabinet.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=someone over 60 years old, or someone who has retired)· There are special clubs for senior citizens.
· The company also offers substantial bonuses to senior employees.
top executives on high salaries It is difficult to retain top management. a member of the senior management team (=with a higher or lower rank)· A senior member of the government has resigned.
The senior partner has retired.· It is crucial that senior personnel be on site from at least 8 am to 8 pm.
· Talks between senior politicians in Zagreb and Belgrade took place.
· Decision making is done by managers holding the most senior positions.
· Senior posts in industry attract very high salaries.
· He held a junior rank in the infantry.
I had a senior moment and just couldn’t think of his name.· I have taken on board the comments of my senior staff.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· They are not tremendously significant unless a person s name comes up for a more senior position.· Out of the last 15, three have been laid off because of more senior teachers taking their place.· Invariably, marketing people are more senior, and win the argument.· A client may request a transfer, usually to a more senior lawyer.· You should discuss the situation with some one more senior than your boss within the company.· In the more successful schools, women held relatively more senior posts in the science department or in the school.
· As chairman you are expected to stay neutral, especially if you are the most senior person present.· Here conditions may be set by the most senior officer present.· Region by region and division by division, the company's most senior executives had been grilled about their online investment plans.· Usually finance departments are responsible for satisfying the most senior executives' information needs.· Not these Tiller girls of course, although the most senior was performing in the forties.· But many questions remain unanswered, including the death in custody of the most senior government agent charged with the killings.· He is now one of the most senior battlefield commanders.· He held this, the most senior post in the republican central executive, until his death.
NOUN· Wolf, 54, is now a senior adviser at Lazard Freres&.· A senior adviser and pollster for Sen.· Moreover, the report questions the Dole campaign for taking on Mark Goodin as a senior adviser.· Tom Rath, senior adviser to former Tennessee Gov.· Clinton may have a harder time finding a successor for senior adviser and long-time confidant George Stephanopoulos.
· They also agreed to exchange visits from some 100 senior citizens around Aug. 15, in an effort to reunite dispersed families.· The idea was to position President Clinton as the defender of senior citizens.· Special rates for children and senior citizens.· In the Republican primaries, Dole has received substantial support from senior citizens, who trust one of their own vintage.· There is a special activity programme geared towards senior citizens, and children will enjoy the weekly Punch and Judy shows.· Starting soon, some one from the Massachusetts center will check up several times a week on senior citizens with congestive heart failure.· This choice of language is for example particularly important in communicating to youth and senior citizen markets.· Others help senior citizens clean their homes.
· If you are new, decide which senior colleagues would support you in your work.· Moreover his senior colleagues shared his vision for change in his division and in Southwest as a whole.· Most of his senior colleagues, and his predecessor, Marvin Runyon, came from the same stable.· Steve and his senior colleagues persisted.· Another of that 1975 troika, Vladimir Skorodenko, is now Genieva's senior colleague.· The appointments committees increasingly rely on recommendations from senior colleagues in the field.· Mr Smith had the overwhelming support of his senior colleagues and the main trades union leaders.· Haslam was backed up by a four-man team of senior colleagues, all of whom were highly professional.
· I had been a senior editor at Ma'ariv, the country's largest newspaper.· When he left People in 1986, he was a senior editor.· And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter.· I take it personally, as I suspect Nethaway, senior editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, intended it.· Even if the newspapers are licensed again, the most senior editors will be in jail.· Henry Gee is a senior editor of Nature.
· Delegates will include senior executives from hotel and catering companies and leading academics.· While flying home I sat next to a senior executive with a large international organization.· Strategic Planning in Practice - a five-day programme for senior executives and directors involved in strategic planning.· A useful starting point is to inquire about the backgrounds of each of the senior executives.· Morgan Chase, but lost a senior executive.· Some of our most telling insights have occurred when we have accompanied a senior executive to the field.· When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area.· Line, not staff, positions traditionally produced senior executives in corporations.
· Throughout the year numerous former senior figures within failed thrifts were indicted.· Many of its senior figures are his former employees and friends.· The major collective syntheses were invariably supervised by the most senior figures in the profession and bear the imprint of authority.· The trial of senior figures is not the only consideration.· There were also senior figures from the World Bank, the United Nations and other international organisations.· Both Mercedes and Auto Union sent senior figures to the London funeral and the flowers started to arrive.· Its steering group consists of very senior figures from education and business.
· Rules are to be drawn up by the Law Society, subject to approval by the Lord Chancellor and four senior judges.· Cecil F.. Poole, who became a senior judge with a lightened caseload last January.· In the debate referred to, the senior judges renewed their attack.· Partisan nomination of senior judges used to be the rule in Britain but has not really been so since the 1920s.· The senior judge in question is former chief justice Eusoff Chin, who ran the judiciary throughout the Anwar trial.· One of Britain's most senior judges has attacked plans to send more people to jail.· The bill gives four senior judges and the Lord Chancellor a veto over rules for solicitor advocates.
· Senior lecturer A senior lecturer engages in teaching and research.· The author is senior lecturer in accounting and finance at the Polytechnic of Central London.· In 1971 Giles returned to Britain to become senior lecturer in surgery at Leeds University.· Thus to insert a lecturer record, it is necessary to choose a senior lecturer to whom that lecturer reports.· The building also houses the relevant staff, including the senior lecturer who is the college's special needs coordinator.
· The issue has been discussed at senior levels within the Church in the last fortnight, Sunday Life has learned.· The total group of interviewees consisted of eight lower level, twenty-six middle level and forty senior level managers.· Older people still continue to dominate the boardroom and the senior levels of corporate power.· Provenzano is suspected of having informants at senior levels, as well as friends among Sicily's left-wing politicians.· In most organisations there are few people who enjoy reputations as good presenters, even at a senior level.· Official contact at senior level resumed in November 1990 when Bush met with Qian in Washington.· Where young players take their first steps on the international ladder at senior level.· Management was not built around care plans and reviews ... and there was little involvement at senior level.
· Other senior men took their personal assistants with them when changing jobs.· Was it a senior man who briefed you?· Second, though some senior men at the Foreign Office are Arabist, there are other officials who balance their influence.· Some senior men from the Nyoongar people supported her, believing that she was possessed by the spirit of an Aboriginal artist.· The senior men of science who gravitated towards politics in the 1960s are a remarkable generation.· Philby was discounted and everything pointed to Mills - a senior man in the Soviet bloc department.· Both of these appointments caused some discontent among the senior men of the industry, who resented the appointment of outsiders.
· Mr Smith saw the move to ensure the institution's senior management were elected and accountable as a straight forward wrecking attempt.· But they questioned the seriousness of the families and senior management.· As a result of the review we have established a new senior management team headed by Liam Swords as Chief Executive.· All this worrying proved for naught, because within the week senior management approved her proposal.· For senior management an important lesson was the trade unions' capacity to absorb change and to become its agents.· There were numerous management layers that acted as filters between senior management and other levels in the organization.· Yet previous research indicates that members of senior management teams in these schools vary in the degree in which they collaborate.· There was no automatic ticket to senior management.
· The following interview extract vividly illustrates the perceived difference, in the eyes of one senior manager in an acute unit.· For example, some senior managers of flexible organizations could establish explicit reward structures that extend beyond normal business cycles.· Colleagues presented him with video editing equipment which was handed over by Michael Larkin, senior manager in Research Group.· Facing the truth about a misguided decision can cause senior managers to lose a good deal of sleep.· A development scheme which is produced by the senior manager may first produce disbelief or scepticism.· Most senior managers in such companies have applied piecemeal changes while holding on tightly to their old centralized structure and habits.· Consequently, there are few middle-level managers and only modest differences in the status and income of senior managers and junior employees.
· That is to say, chairmen are invariably the most senior member of the majority party on that committee.· High priority is given to any of their senior members who have held ministerial office.· The move caught top military officers and senior members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees by surprise.· These should be carried out under the supervision of a senior member of staff.· Mr Lorne, 49 years old, also will be a senior member of the Salomon control team.· And finally there is Shirly Jaffe, a senior member of a club whose number is dwindling steadily.· As a senior member of the Karolinska faculty, it fell to him to introduce the two speakers.
· The senior ministers fell easily into the habit of cooperation. but many in the party refused even to attempt the transition.· Mr Mugabe and senior ministers have been blamed for encouraging the new invasions and inciting violence.· Added to this was the deep suspicion felt by senior ministers, influential judges and lawyers about purists themselves.· Like Attlee and his senior ministers in 1945, Churchill had seen the wartime machine and it had worked.· Thousands of people received the letter, which purports to be signed by the senior minister of judicial affairs.· But a senior minister can overturn that order.· He persuaded senior ministers that only the unusual conditions of a wartime coalition could permit the religious question to be solved.
· That had followed a request by the accused to see a senior officer.· Both senior officers had felt it right to come straight to him.· Mr Appleby said he complained to a senior officer who made a note in the ship's log.· There were indications that more senior officers had ordered the killings but had negotiated immunity.· The principal family, Coker, were well-known Parliamentarians and several members were senior officers in the Cromwellian forces.· It is unclear how the appointment of such a senior officer will affect the current investigations.· Several senior officers and other experts argued publicly for the abolition of conscription and for the creation of a smaller professional Army.
· Mr. Cousins has every confidence that the two-day meeting with the Community's senior officials will ensure acceptance.· In fact, they were senior officials, few in number and recruited through complex competitive examinations.· In September several senior officials were dismissed or reprimanded for poor work in the consumer goods sector.· In Washington, senior officials privately expressed wariness.· Other senior officials also attended the summit.· Twice a year the associate members' foreign ministers meet those of the Community, and senior officials see each other more often.· Only the most senior officials may be in a position to have some impact upon determining their own interests.· Clergy and senior officials with the mace outside Logie Kirk.
· Current deputy senior partner Gil Hayward is to take over the firm's day-to-day management from Mr Ramshaw.· A handful of non-OPP senior partners agreed to lead the work of those teams.· Mr Gough is to be chairman and joint senior partner with Mr Bullock deputy chairman and joint senior partner.· All the senior partners in his law firms had flirtations with coronary incidents except him.· Mr Gough is to be chairman and joint senior partner with Mr Bullock deputy chairman and joint senior partner.· By the mid-1980s he had been senior partner or managing co-partner in twenty projects worth well over a billion dollars.· Mr Theo Simpson, the senior partner, personally handled Miss Needham's affairs.· His age made him senior partner, and Gemma wished he were not.
· All the senior police officers were down with flu - so the Chief Constable asked for his aid.· Read in studio A senior police officer has been criticised for the way he investigated the death of a student.· Read in studio A senior police officer has criticised the way the criminal justice system handles young offenders.· In January two senior police officials committed suicide after coming under investigation.· I arrived at Albany accompanied by two senior police officers and a psychologist.· Even those who ought to know better, like senior police officers and judges. have been convicted.· There were daily statements by senior police officers, by the Home Secretary, by the Prime Minister.
· A number of senior politicians, including one member of Schro der's cabinet, agree.· No senior politician dares to oppose deployment.· The sight of so many senior politicians falling over themselves to kiss his hand was reminiscent of Tammany Hall at its worst.· Jimmy Carter and George Bush also have joined a growing chorus of eminent senior politicians in the quest for reform.· He is one of Britain's most respected broadcasters and has interviewed a string of famous people from senior politicians to royalty.· Another senior politician to suffer a heart attack was John Smith.· Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience.
· And he made it clear that he wasn't talking about regular reallocation of senior positions in the Church.· But the United States has demurred, lobbying only for senior positions that can have an immediate impact on U.S. interests.· A senior position on a major local authority is virtually a full-time job.· They may advance to positions with more responsibility in 1 or 2 years and to senior positions within another few years.· So why are there so few women in senior positions?· As you establish your career you plan promotion to senior positions.· They are not tremendously significant unless a person s name comes up for a more senior position.· Look for more openings soon in some senior positions.
· That official now holds a very senior post in the Education Department.· Unlike previous prime ministers he has had no real experience in government, running a ministry or serving in a senior post.· But he so impressed bosses they asked him to apply for the more senior post of general marketing director.· Clinton has subsequently named more than 100 gays and lesbians to senior posts.· The Federal Chancellor's Office is the largest Federal ministry in terms of senior posts.· Indeed, it is evident that women were also under-represented in senior posts and concentrated in the lower posts available.· This is particularly so for senior posts.· She was one of three long-lived sisters who rose to senior posts in the Army.
· Two-thirds had attended a school visit which would have required organisation by senior school management.· Kylie progressed from Camberwell's infant section into the senior school and, at least romantically, left Grant behind.· By the time she was in senior school her love of fashion was firmly established.· The Elton Report advocates senior school staff carrying out random attendance checks on individual lessons.· He survived the senior schools by developing a wit to match his intelligence.
· He was pretty unpopular with most of the senior staff.· Staff unions and many councillors last year attacked large pay increases for senior staff in all departments.· Lisa Porter, a senior staff accountant with the Partlow firm, has joined the Drees firm.· Trouble between senior staff is the last complication he wants just now.· Group sessions between senior staff and learners are also of value when ethical problems occur in the treatment of patients.· Obviously the teaching, or the learning, or the memory span, or the example shown by senior staff was defective.
· He was awarded a scholarship to Harvard in our senior year, the only one in the history of Hollybush High.· Spacey transferred there his senior year from Canoga Park High.· By the time Celestine reached her senior year, she had switched from engineering to chemistry research as her career choice.· During his senior year, Jeff is expanding his activities.· She wants to give the girl a chance to have a decent senior year.· He showed dramatic improvement from his junior year to his senior year.· The story follows two girl basketball stars through their senior year of high school.· In all I had the feeling six times during my senior year.
the senior Democrat on the House committee White men hold most of the jobs in senior management. the senior partner in a law firmsenior to He is also a diplomat, but senior to me.2[only before noun] British English a senior competition is for older people or for people at a more advanced level: I won the 60-metre race, my first senior success.COLLOCATIONSnounssenior management· Within the week senior management approved her proposal.senior staff· Some senior staff criticized the headteacher's behaviour.a senior manager· She's now a senior manager for a large toy company.a senior executive (=in a company)· All the company's senior executives get large bonuses.a senior official (=in an organization)· a meeting of senior government officialsa senior officer (=in the police or military)· Inspector Wild is the senior officer in charge of the investigation.a senior partner (=in a law firm etc)· He was a senior partner in a prestigious Canadian law firm.a senior member· The president announced a reshuffle involving several senior members of his Cabinet.senior1 adjectivesenior2 noun
seniorsenior2 ●○○ noun [countable] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I can't believe that Cari is a high school senior already.
- I took French when I was a senior.
- Rossmoor was designed as a housing development for active seniors.
- The entire senior class took a trip to Disneyworld.
- And most of the seniors had not welcomed the appointment.
- My senior had not been a Humber.
- The age-oriented community was conceived as a combination housing development and amusement park for active seniors.
- The nature walk is $ 9 for adults, $ 7 for seniors and kids 5 to 11.
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.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES top executives on high salaries It is difficult to retain top management. a member of the senior management team The senior partner has retired. I had a senior moment and just couldn’t think of his name.
1American English a student in their last year of high school or university: (=someone over 60 years old, or someone who has retired)· There are special clubs for senior citizens.
· The company also offers substantial bonuses to senior employees.
top executives on high salaries It is difficult to retain top management. a member of the senior management team (=with a higher or lower rank)· A senior member of the government has resigned.
The senior partner has retired.· It is crucial that senior personnel be on site from at least 8 am to 8 pm.
· Talks between senior politicians in Zagreb and Belgrade took place.
· Decision making is done by managers holding the most senior positions.
· Senior posts in industry attract very high salaries.
· He held a junior rank in the infantry.
I had a senior moment and just couldn’t think of his name.· I have taken on board the comments of my senior staff.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· For example, he enjoyed harassing college seniors like me.
Jen will be a senior this year.2 especially American English a senior citizen: Seniors can get a 10% discount.3be two/five/ten etc years somebody’s senior to be two, five, ten etc years older than someone: Her husband was nine years her senior.4British English an adult or a person who has reached an advanced level in a particular sport: Juniors and seniors train together on Wednesdays.