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seniority

/seen-yawr-i-tee, -yor-/US // sinˈyɔr ɪ ti, -ˈyɒr- //UK // (ˌsiːnɪˈɒrɪtɪ) //

资历,年资,工龄,资格

Related Words

preference偏好,喜好,偏爱,倾向性standing站立,站在,站立式,站立的advantage优势precedence优先权,先例,优先级,先行rank级别,等级,排名,职级antiquity古代,古代人,古代的,远古时代priority优先权,优先事项,优先级,优先考虑station站,站台,站内,站长superiority优越性,优势,优越感,优异性

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sen·ior·i·ties for 2.

    • : the state of being senior; priority of birth; superior age.
    • : priority, precedence, or status obtained as the result of a person's length of service, as in a profession, trade, company, or union: First choice of vacation time will be given to employees with seniority.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounrank in organization due to length of service
Synonyms
preference偏好,喜好,偏爱,倾向性advantage优势antiquity古代,古代人,古代的,远古时代eldership长老职位,长老身份,长老制,长老会precedence优先权,先例,优先级,先行priority优先权,优先事项,优先级,优先考虑rank级别,等级,排名,职级ranking排名,排行,排名榜,名次standing站立,站在,站立式,站立的station站,站台,站内,站长superiority优越性,优势,优越感,优异性

Examples

  • A leadership vacuum will become a real risk, and there are no obvious candidates with the seniority and stature of Sanders.

  • Far fewer women than men are promoted in the finance industry unless they first ask for seniority, a sign of institutional gender bias, according to a new study in Australia.

  • It also requires that hotels hire back based on seniority and if they don’t, that they provide a written explanation.

  • Despite their seniority when they were laid off, they have not been offered a chance to return, even as some employees have been called back as visitor numbers have started to rebound.

  • When I heard they were doing layoffs, I thought I would be OK because I have the most seniority in my department.

  • As long as seniority reigns among teachers,” Klein writes, “we will fail.

  • The culture of promotion through seniority kills creativity and effectiveness.

  • Charter schools, rejecting the tenet of promotion through seniority, promised to do better.

  • Vogel spins a story of a political culture becoming slowly unbound by previous constraints like party loyalty or seniority.

  • The best we mere doctors usually hope for is time with aides of varying seniority.

  • When a candidate passes, he is appointed assistant-engineer by the Ministry, and he rises in his profession solely by seniority.

  • The Drapers assembled beneath, and proceeded to make their purchases in order of seniority, according to ancient usage.

  • Still, I would harden my heart to it now—to-night—were not my hands tied by Mahon's seniority.

  • "He's not as susceptible as he looks," Rose pronounced from her vantage-point of seniority.

  • When a father dies intestate, his property is equally divided among his children, without respect to sex or seniority.

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