I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a senior citizen (=someone over 60 years old, or someone who has retired)
▪ There are special clubs for senior citizens.
a senior politician
▪ Talks between senior politicians in Zagreb and Belgrade took place.
a senior position
▪ Decision making is done by managers holding the most senior positions.
a senior post
▪ Senior posts in industry attract very high salaries.
a senior/junior employee
▪ The company also offers substantial bonuses to senior employees.
a senior/junior member (=with a higher or lower rank)
▪ A senior member of the government has resigned.
had a senior moment
▪ I had a senior moment and just couldn’t think of his name.
senior citizen
senior high school
senior moment
▪ I had a senior moment and just couldn’t think of his name.
senior partner
▪ The senior partner has retired.
senior personnel
▪ It is crucial that senior personnel be on site from at least 8 am to 8 pm.
senior school
senior/junior rank
▪ He held a junior rank in the infantry.
senior/junior staff
▪ I have taken on board the comments of my senior staff.
senior/top executive
▪ top executives on high salaries
senior/top management
▪ It is difficult to retain top management.
▪ a member of the senior management team
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ 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.
most
▪ 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
adviser
▪ Wolf, 54, is now a senior adviser at Lazard Freres&038;.
▪ 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.
citizen
▪ 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.
colleague
▪ 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.
editor
▪ 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.
executive
▪ 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.
figures
▪ 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.
judge
▪ 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.
lecturer
▪ 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.
level
▪ 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.
man
▪ 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.
management
▪ 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.
manager
▪ 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.
member
▪ 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.
minister
▪ 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.
officer
▪ 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.
official
▪ 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.
partner
▪ 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.
police
▪ 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.
politician
▪ 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.
position
▪ 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.
post
▪ 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.
school
▪ 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.
staff
▪ 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.
year
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 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
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
college
▪ For example, he enjoyed harassing college seniors like me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.