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senior

/seen-yer/US // ˈsin yər //UK // (ˈsiːnjə) //

高级,高级职员,长者,高层

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : older or elder: I'd like to speak with the senior Mr. Hansen, please.I'm privileged to introduce Mr. Edward Andrew Hansen, Sr.Compare junior.
    • : of earlier appointment or admission, as to an office, status, or rank: a senior partner.
    • : of higher or the highest rank or standing.
    • : of or relating to students in their final year or to their class.
    • : of or relating to the final two years of education, during which a student specializes in a certain field of study.
    • : of, for, or pertaining to a senior citizen or senior citizens as a group: senior discounts on local bus fares.
    • : of earlier date; prior to: His appointment is senior to mine by a year.
    • : Finance. having a claim on payments, assets, dividends, or the like prior to other creditors, mortgages, stockholders, etc.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is older than another.
    • : a person of higher rank or standing than another, especially by virtue of longer service.
    • : a student in the final year at a high school, preparatory school, college, or university.
    • : a fellow holding senior rank in a college at an English university.
    • : a senior citizen.
    • : a member of the Girl Scouts from 14 through 17 years of age.

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Examples

  • Next, FiveThirtyEight senior sportswriter Chris Herring joins to talk about what’s ahead for the Houston Rockets now that they’ve crashed out of the NBA playoffs.

  • Colin Cunliff is a senior policy analyst with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

  • Eddy Cue, 55, was named the senior vice president of the unit in 2011.

  • Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is a senior associate dean and Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice at the Yale School of Management.

  • For longer-term success, new-country partners will need to train and develop senior business leaders.

  • Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President of the Fortune Society, gave a tour along with a few residents.

  • “We look for the qualities that are evocative of V.S.O.P Privilege,” explained Hennessy Senior Vice President Rodney Williams.

  • “Clean as a whistle,” says a senior investigator involved in the case.

  • Another senior Air Force official with stealth fighter experience agreed.

  • E.J. Graff, senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, is the author of What Is Marriage For?

  • The senior branch of the family being thus extinct the whole of the entailed estate had devolved on me.

  • “Reduced counsels,” interposed Mr. Weller senior, in an undertone.

  • This senior was middle-aged, and passing rich on eighty pounds a year.

  • I remember a senior clerk in the office where I first worked to whom there was a general aversion.

  • He must have had means of his own, as he lived in a way far beyond the reach of even a senior clerk of the first degree.