Seniority

Definition

senior /'si:niǝ(r)/ adj ၁။ ~ ( to sb ) ရာထူး၊ အဆင့္အားျဖင့္ျမင့္ေသာ။ a senior staff meeting ❍ a senior lecturer ❍ He is the senior partner in the firm. ❍ She is senior to me, because she joined the company before me. ၂။ (အထူးသျဖင့္ အားကစားတြင္) အသက္ ၁၈-ႏွစ္ အထက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ take part in senior competitions ❍ He won his first senior cap as a 20-year- old. ၃။ ( often Senior, abbr Snr ) အမည္တူသားအဖတြင္ အဖအမည္ႏွင့္သံုးေသာ(ပုဒ္)။ John Brown Senior. ၄။ ( Brit ) အသက္၁၁-ႏွစ္ အထက္တို႔အတြက္(ေက်ာင္း)။ Compare JUNIOR n ၁။ (အသက္အားျဖင့္)ႀကီးသူ။ She is my senior by two years/two years my senior. ၂။ ( Brit ) ေက်ာင္းသားႀကီး။ စီနီယာေက်ာင္းသား။ The seniors are allowed into town during the lunch hour. ၃။ ( US ) (အထက္တန္းေက်ာင္း၊ ေကာလိပ္) ေနာက္ဆံုးႏွစ္ေက်ာင္းသား။ ❏ senior citizen n ( euph ) သက္ႀကီးဝါႀကီး။ ❏ seniority /si:ni'ɒrǝti; US -'ↄ:r-/ n [U] ၁။ အသက္အား ျဖင့္၊ အရာအားျဖင့္ ႀကီးျခင္း။ ဝါရင့္ျခင္း။ Should promotion be based on merit or seniority? ၂။ ရာထူးသက္ႀကီးျခင္း။ ဝါရင့္ျခင္း။ a doctor with five years' seniority over his colleague.

Examples

1. A senior officer/teacher/manager
2. [senior to] : There are only two posts that are senior to mine.
3. Only senior students can leave the premises at lunchtime.
4. The senior competition
5. The career of Douglas Fairbanks Senior