transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒu:niə(r) ]
( juniors)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A junior official or employee holds a low-ranking position in an organization or profession.
Junior and middle-ranking civil servants have pledged to join the indefinite strike.
...a junior minister attached to the prime minister’s office.
≠ senior
ADJ : usu ADJ n
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Junior is also a noun.
The Lord Chancellor has said legal aid work is for juniors when they start out in the law.
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2.
If you are someone’s junior , you are younger than they are.
She now lives with actor Denis Lawson, 10 years her junior.
N-SING : poss N
3.
Junior is sometimes used after the name of the younger of two men in a family who have the same name, sometimes in order to prevent confusion. The abbreviation Jr is also used. ( AM )
His son, Arthur Ochs Junior, is expected to succeed him as publisher.
N-IN-NAMES
4.
In the United States, a student in the third year of a high school or university course is called a junior .
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