Junior League

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noun

any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.

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OTHER WORDS FROM Junior League

Junior Leaguer, noun

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How to use Junior League in a sentence

And then I did teachers all throughout elementary school and junior high for my friends.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But as an American creating a new brand here, and living the daily life of the souk, he seems to be in a league of his own.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement deploring the state GOP for its failure to censure Duke.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This initiative had the support of all 22 members of the Arab League, which in and of itself is remarkable.
In the Middle East, the Two-State Solution Is Dead|Dean Obeidallah|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

I spoke to the League of Women Voters, a pretty liberal group... I still went and spoke to them.
No. 3 Republican Admits Talking to White Supremacist Conference|Tim Mak|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We were still one league and a half from the island when the twilight ended and night came on.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
Directors were to us junior clerks, remote personalities, mythical beings dwelling on Olympian heights.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
The tall, lean youngster wore a junior pilot's bands on the sleeves of his blue uniform.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
The solemn league and covenant burned by the common hangman at London, and afterwards throughout the country.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Another such case is found in the account of the league between Joshua and the princes of the congregation, and the Gibeonites.
The Ordinance of Covenanting|John Cunningham