juniority
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of juniority
Example Sentences
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In happier times, when he was boasting about replacing trained and highly paid workers with new and inexperienced ones, Bastian called the savings “the juniority benefit.”
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2022
Last week this second son moved out a step from his journalistic juniority.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aubrey had the better of the encounter in height, weight, and more than twenty years juniority, but fortune played for the bookseller.
From The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
That accident cannot react upon this child to invest him with the privileges of absolute juniority.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
I take not upon me to teach, but to advise; for it becomes my juniority rather to be pupil’d my selfe than to instruct others.”
From Shakespeare in the Theatre by William Poel
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