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
All that I had hitherto known of apprehension and despair and jealousy of Archie's luck and chances and juniority was eclipsed by the emotion that now flowed over me like a wave.
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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 Poel, William
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 Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
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