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senior
Adjective
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A senior person has a higher social position.
She's a senior vice-president with the company.
Mr. Bush spoke after three days of briefings with senior advisers and military commanders.
Joining us is NPR's senior Washington editor Ron Elving.
Junior officers look around at the senior leadership and say,' Are these people I admire.
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A senior citizen is somebody who is older, usually over the age of 65.
By 2030, one in five Americans will be a senior citizen.
Senior PGA golfer Jack Nicklaus believes in the positive possibilities in golf for young people.
We've been trying to locate the group in a convenient, nonmedical setting (for example, church, senior center, or restaurant).
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Senior high school is usually for grades 10-12 (ages, 15-18).
I studied the works of many classical writers in junior high school and senior high school.
senior
Noun
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A senior is a student in their last year of high school, college, or university.
He's also attended his senior prom and heads off to college this fall.
They met when she was a junior and he a senior.
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A senior is someone who has a higher social position.
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A senior is somebody who is older, usually over the age of 65.
administrative
Adjective
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Administrative staff or positions are those related to organizing and managing a company or institution.
The teacher was removed from teaching duties and placed in an administrative position.
officer
Noun
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An officer is a person in an army who has much authority. A general and a captain are two types of officers.
A soldier must obey his commanding officer.
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An officer is a policeman, often called a "police officer." (Note, "officer" is often better than "policeman" because the officer could be a woman or a man.)
Officer, can you help me, I've been robbed.
The thief was taken to jail by the officers.
He was arrested for hitting an officer.
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An officer is someone who holds office (meaning, has authority).
The judge is an important officer of the court.
She is the chief executive officer, or CEO, for our company.
for
Preposition
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shows that something belongs to something else, or has a specific function
This cake is for you.
This is a net for catching fish.
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For is used to show the reason for something
He was angry, for he had never been called such terrible names before.
for
Subordinator
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For introduces a clause with a subject and a to-infinitive
It's not good for you to be too relaxed.
technical
Adjective
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Technical problems, writing, or skills, are related to special knowledge that most people don't have.
Doctors use a lot of technical vocabulary. I wish they would explain things more easily.
Our computers had some kind of technical problem, so we had to call somebody to come and fix it.
A prima ballerina must have great technical knowledge of dance movement.
cooperation
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noun
joint operation or action
their cooperation with us was essential for the success of our mission
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noun
the practice of cooperating
economic cooperation
they agreed on a policy of cooperation
finance
Noun
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Finance is activities related to banking and money, especially by government.
The minister of finance announced that taxes would increase by 1% in May.
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Your finances is the money that you have.
She had managed to raise sufficient finances to enable her and her family to travel to Australia.
The company's finances seem to be in good shape.
finance
Verb
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If you finance something, you provide money for it.
The soccer team was partly financed by a local business.
The bank is financing our car loan.
matter
Noun
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A matter is something that you can talk about or do something about—a topic or a situation.
Government must make these changes as a matter of urgency.
We can discuss the matter more fully at the meeting.
Whether our people should be in the country or not is matter for debate.
At the meeting we will have time to talk about new matters arising.
They decided on a number of matters related to housing.
Try not to do anything to make matters worse.
As a matter of principle, we should try to help poor people.
It is not a simple matter to stop using gasoline.
Care Assistants help them with such matters as toileting, dressing, washing and so on.
The truth of the matter is that we do not know how to do it.
The questions about the new president are a matter of public concern.
Cheating on a test is a serious matter.
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Matter is the stuff that everything is made of.
Cities are trying to separate organic matter and other garbage.
Scientists now think that there is some kind of "dark matter" in space.
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You use, "as a matter of fact" to add information that may be surprising.
"Have you met anyone interesting over there?" "As a matter of fact, I met a whole bunch of people just this afternoon.
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You use "what's the matter" to ask somebody why they are unhappy, or why there is a problem.
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You use "for that matter" when you have just thought about something that you are comparing to something else.
He wasn't very nice today. For that matter, he's never nice.
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If something is only a matter of time, it may not happen now, but it will happen after some time.
It's only a matter of days now before I start the new job.
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You use "no matter what" to say that even if other things change, a particular thing will not change.
I'll be there no matter what. I promise.
matter
Verb
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If something doesn't matter, it is not important.
"Should I put it up there?" "Oh, it doesn't matter. Put it anywhere."
Anyone can play. It doesn't matter if you're seven or 70.
It doesn't matter what you do as long as it's fun.
Many people don't like me, but that doesn't really matter to me.
This should help a lot of people and that's what matters.
"Sorry about that!" "Oh, it doesn't matter."
It's not your money, so what does it matter?