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seniority
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Seniority is the concept of a person or group of people taking precedence over another person or group because the former is either older than the latter or has occupied a particular position longer than the latter. Seniority is present between parents ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service [syn: senior status , higher status , higher rank ] the property of being long-lived [syn: longevity ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ People should be promoted and rewarded on merit, not seniority . ▪ There is no substitute for seniority and experience. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seniority \Sen*ior"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being senior.
Usage examples of seniority.
Mortati had waited patiently at the main altar as each cardinal, in order of seniority, had approached and performed the specific balloting procedure.
Seniority went by weight, with Klipkop, who had defeated Jackhammer Smit on points over ten rounds and was now the Lowveld heavyweight champion, the most senior, down to myself at the very bottom of the ladder.
Offer him money, a seniority amongst the dukes, the perpetual Presidentship of Wales--what you will, if you can but shake him.
I am not yet employed as such, but in a few years I shall fall into the file of supervisorship by seniority.
And seniority aside, Istvan had the biggest fangs and baddest attitude of all.
Surprise startled the question out of Mercedes Brigham, despite her relative lack of seniority, and Caparelli chuckled with very little humor.
First of all, pay is usually based on seniority at an airline, so it may take many years until a pilot can fly the largest jets and achieve a higher pay scale.
Until someone with more seniority showed up, she was in charge of keeping the middies under control and out of my hair.
Every day, letters of inquiry and notices from the court arrived, and on the first of May, Denisov was ordered to hand the squadron over to the next in seniority and appear before the staff of his division to explain his violence at the commissariat office.
Car rothers got in on the left side, in deference to General Waddelfs seniority.
The Company lined up in order of seniority, which meant that the new privates, in the back, caught only glimpses of the glinting piles before veterans blocked their view.
Of the nearly sixty mages currently in the Order, Baden ranked approximately twentieth in seniority, and he and Jaryd stood several places in back of Sartol, and two places ahead of Radomil.
Mortati had waited patiently at the main altar as each cardinal, in order of seniority, had approached and performed the specific balloting procedure.
Only Ingram had the seniority, and knew Celia well enough, to laugh aloud.
If Lara Quistner deferred to Blesh on the basis of his seniority, and if he was consistently unrealistic, difficulties for the group were guaranteed.