seniority

noun

Definition of senioritynext
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as in senility

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as in privilege

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Recent Examples of seniority The seniority of the role is important, in that the candidate will need enough authority to challenge senior leaders and effectively advise them, according to Bill Margaritis, who led communications at FedEx for 15 years. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026 High-agency employees who are resourceful—regardless of their level of seniority—can contribute to meaningful work whether as ICs or leaders, creating high-density teams that apply taste and knowledge to deliver best-in-class results. — Neda Nia, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026 These rejections include supplemental health benefits, a night shift differential, geographic pay differential, a recruitment and retention proposal, seniority differential and overtime meal benefits, according to the complaint. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2026 With the promoter model, influence is spread across three people—technology, process, and power promoters—who may be in different departments, at different levels of seniority, and who might never share a reporting line. — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seniority
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seniority
  1. senility
  2. privilege
  3. maturity
  4. precedence
  5. dotage
  6. prerogative
  7. oldness
  8. preference
Noun
  • Her cause of death was chronic nephritis with senility, according to The Herald News.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Then the interview happens, and Thomas is swinging between lucidity and senility, and a million things about their relationship come up, and the fiction records the interview the phone couldn’t capture.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
Definition of senility
Noun
  • Don’t Give Agents Their Own Set Of Rules Most companies already have policies governing production access, sensitive data, financial systems, administrative privileges and other consequential actions.
    — Shashwat Sehgal, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Even so, money and privilege cannot guarantee that these elites will stay loyal.
    — Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of privilege
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  • Aries March 21 – April 19 Partnership asks for a little more maturity today.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 4 Oct. 2026
  • After all, the oysters on the coast of the Discovery Islands that are featured in the film take years to reach maturity, but all around them, the pace of environmental change is accelerating.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of maturity
Noun
  • That process of reconciliation takes precedence over the music, all of which is believable in its context (the verisimilitude of the The Behemoth!
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026
  • This commonality appears to take precedence over foreign-policy concerns.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of precedence
Noun
  • Far from being a sign of dotage, scientists concurred, music practice in old age confers all kinds of cognitive benefits.
    — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
  • In his basketball dotage, Kyle Lowry is getting soft.
    — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Definition of dotage
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  • The evening was beautiful, strange, and so far removed from the prerogatives of retail as to suggest that its entire purpose was not to have one.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • These appointments are not a pure presidential prerogative, just as the Justice Department itself is not intended to be an arm of the White House.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of prerogative
Noun
  • Then there were some streaks of about three hundred people identifying the advent of oldness to the early, mid, and late sixties.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Definition of oldness
Noun
  • This hotel really does have a little bit of everything for everyone, regardless of your gastronomic preferences.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • If employees enjoy working from home, wouldn’t a hybrid model be the perfect way to balance that preference with the need for face-to-face contact?
    — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of preference

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