Usually means: Length of service or tenure.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. seniority: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. seniority: Merriam-Webster
  3. seniority: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. seniority: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. seniority: Collins English Dictionary
  6. seniority: Vocabulary.com
  7. Seniority, seniority: Wordnik
  8. seniority: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. seniority: Wiktionary
  10. seniority: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. seniority: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. seniority: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. seniority: Dictionary.com
  14. seniority: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Seniority (company), Seniority (finance), Seniority (financial), Seniority: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Seniority: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. seniority: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. seniority: Rhymezone
  19. Seniority: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. seniority: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. seniority: FreeDictionary.org
  22. seniority: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. seniority: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. seniority: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Seniority: bizterms.net
  5. Seniority: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. seniority: Legal dictionary
  7. Seniority: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seniority: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seniority: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Seniority: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A measure of the amount of time a person has been a member of an organization, as compared to other members, and with an eye towards awarding privileges to those who have been members longer.

Similar:
senior status, longevity, higher rank, higher status, seniorship, senior, juniorship, eldership, old guard, seniory, more...

Opposite:
youth, youthfulness

Phrases:
seniority system, seniority rule, Seniority in the United States House of Representatives, Seniority in the United States Senate, Agnatic seniority, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, greater, departmental, relative, high, low, enough, strict, wide, sufficient

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Similar:
senior status, longevity, higher rank, higher status, seniorship, senior, juniorship, eldership, old guard, seniory, more...

Opposite:
youth, youthfulness

Phrases:
seniority system, seniority rule, Seniority in the United States House of Representatives, Seniority in the United States Senate, Agnatic seniority, United States military seniority, having seniority, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, greater, departmental, relative, high, low, enough, strict, wide, sufficient

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     bronze,     navy blue,     burgundy, more...



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