WordNet
junior-grade
adj. inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" [syn: inferior, lower, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), secondary, subaltern, subordinate]
Usage examples of "junior-grade".
He was more accustomed to junior-grade lieutenants her age than he was to lieutenant commanders, and it was difficult, sometimes, to keep that from showing, however competent the lieutenant commander in question might be.