seniority English

Meaning seniority meaning

What does seniority mean?

seniority

— noun (= higher rank) higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service

— noun (= longevity) the property of being long-lived

Synonyms seniority synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as seniority?

seniority English » English

precedence

priority

predecessor

precedency

senior status

senior

previousness

longevity

higher status

higher rank

eldership

upper seat

top digit

superiority

status

prosperity

priority of birth

primogeniture

parenthood

parental quality

parentage

oldness

long service

legation

leadership

intelligence

high-order digit

head

growth

embassy

chief

boss

antiquity

antique

anteriority

antecedence

ancientry

advanced age

advance

adulthood

Examples seniority examples

How do I use seniority in a sentence?

Simple sentences

If you try to defend the seniority-based corporate escalator these days all you'll get is flak from younger employees.

You've got seniority.

Movie subtitles

Couldn't. Seniority.

So I'm claiming her on the basis of seniority.

I suppose you have seniority.

Yeah, you were always pulling seniority on me at camp.

Next in seniority, so he took command.

She's got seniority.

Those with seniority will stay. We've worked here 3 years.

That's the rule. Two years on the border count double for seniority.

I happen to be Buford T. Justice, a distinguished officer of over 30 years' seniority!

Seniority.

Don't you abuse your seniority.

This new remit gives you more Influence, more Cabinet seniority.

Hey, El. Seniority gets the day tour.

Yeah, but T. J. Seniority, you know?

Seniority, you know.

I've got something that only years can buy: Seniority.

This is one time when the seniority really pays off.

Too many girls have seniority over me.

But thompson has seniority.

Listen, you may be a big shot in boston but when it comes to bridges and buses i got seniority and i tell you that bridge is so old that. hey, what is this?

I have eight years of seniority.

Those with seniority will stay.

I've got something that only years can buy: seniority.

It's about this desk. and seniority.

Please make payment according to seniority.

By the way, who has seniority between you and Jing?

This is our turf. We got seniority.

I mean, if you think of the seniority list, the next chief is, you know.

I bet you what sold as seniority.

You got the age, the seniority.

He has seniority.

It's one of the perks of my seniority.

News and current affairs

Moreover, the member state's liability to the ECB would enjoy super-seniority status and be insured by the European Stability Mechanism against the risk of a hard default.

Moreover, some benefits - for example, parental leave - are conditional on seniority within a company.

At least for workers with seniority in a firm, it also means taking into account the psychological costs associated with losing a long-held job.

There is a simple, if radical, solution: abrogate the legal provisions that regulate the duration of employment contracts, and return the treatment of tenure and seniority to collective bargaining, as is the case elsewhere.

The logical complement of such freedom would be to make employers pay for the social costs of plant closings, by levying a tax on layoffs, which would increase with seniority.

Under this scheme, job-security provisions, mainly in the form of mandated severance payments, should increase steadily as workers acquire seniority.

Public administration, too, must be overhauled to promote efficiency by rewarding hard work and quality of service, not seniority and over-manning.

Likewise, they now recognize that bailout loans that give the new lender seniority over other creditors worsen the position of private investors, who will simply demand even higher interest rates.

Right and Left swapped seniority around a barely-existent central pole.

Iranians have a sense of seniority, if not superiority, born of a rich and ancient culture that has survived into modern times.

Though the IMF is supposed to have seniority over other creditors, there will be demands to write down a share of the loans that it has issued.

The exception is the US military, which pays teachers according to the same scale as other defense department employees, based on criteria like training, education, seniority, and experiences.

Then consider these countries' bloated public services, where jobs are guaranteed for life, promotion is by seniority rather than merit, and customers are seen as a nuisance.

Their new leader, King Abdullah, appears to have legitimacy because of his seniority in the family.

Locally recruited members do not enjoy seniority in the 70-million-strong Chinese Communist Party.

By establishing the seniority rule for the most important Supreme Court appointment, Sharif has depoliticized the process.