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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.
clerk
Noun
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A clerk is a person who keeps an organization's records.
I called the city clerks office to see if they had a record of her birth.
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A sales clerk is the person in a shop who helps you find things you want to buy.
A convenience store clerk was arrested for selling cigarettes to children.
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A desk clerk is the person at a hotel who registers guests.
The desk clerk called a taxi for us.
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A law clerk is a person, often a junior lawyer, who is the assistant of a judge or another lawyer.
clerk
Verb
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If you clerk, you work as a clerk, especially as a law clerk.
She clerked for the judge in 1992, and says she and her fellow clerks worked "as many hours as we could stay awake, often past midnight and on weekends."