JUNIOR


Meaning of JUNIOR in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a junior champion

The cycling team includes British junior champion, Andrew Wright.

a junior position

I left school and was offered a junior position in a bank.

a junior post

He was offered a junior post in a bank.

a senior/junior employee

The company also offers substantial bonuses to senior employees.

a senior/junior member (= with a higher or lower rank )

A senior member of the government has resigned.

junior college

junior high school

junior partner (= less important group )

The group is a junior partner in the PLO’s governing coalition.

junior school

junior varsity

senior/junior rank

He held a junior rank in the infantry.

senior/junior staff

I have taken on board the comments of my senior staff.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

There were more junior officials around them, and Pink was the centre of attention.

A: Historically, do the smaller airlines have more junior pilots?

Finally, on June 29, Pérez accepted the resignations of six Cabinet ministers and five more junior government members.

most

Invite the most junior person in your department to sit in on your executive meeting.

We were the two most junior warrant officers in the company.

Abdullah was the equivalent of a constable, the most junior career rank, almost on a par with conscripts.

Unfortunately, circumcision is often delegated to the most junior surgeons and its potential morbidity underestimated.

Today, he is hiding behind the most junior available Minister in another Department.

At the most junior level there are the students, about whom we have spoken already.

The most junior of these acts as a regional supervisor who manages the activities of area staff.

Again the most senior teachers in schools are the least negative in this regard and the most junior the most negative.

very

No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior.

I don't know who it was made the decision, I was only a very junior Producer.

It was to this great tradition, though as a self-confessedly very junior follower, that Lewis quite easily and naturally belonged.

He was a young and hopeful solicitor, still very junior in the practice.

■ NOUN

champion

The most impressive winner of the afternoon was North-East junior champion Michael Threadgill.

He was also second in the Yorkshire Championships at Harrogate and is currently junior champion of Yorkshire.

championship

Simon, a reserve for the world junior championship this month, won the junior men's event.

clerk

Payments are probably dealt with by some junior clerk who applies his or her own interpretation of what the company wants.

He was junior clerk under Peter Marro.

Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers.

The junior clerk in the Profitboss's team is a prospect.

Each of these six departments had two or three clerks or junior clerks to assist them in the work.

It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph, as a junior clerk .

He first appears in the records as a junior clerk or singing-man in Henry VI's chapel royal, in 1441.

He's prepared to help whoever he meets, be it a trade union leader, a consultant or a junior clerk .

club

Even junior clubs were holding on to their players.

And what a great innovation the Provincial Insurance Cup for junior clubs has been.

colleague

Football columnist Ralph the Rover, for example, and his junior colleague Wanderer.

Very few fully appreciated their profound influence on their junior colleagues .

Together the three senior men debriefed their two junior colleagues for several hours.

college

In Quebec, this was adapted to cover late secondary, junior college , and university work.

It was a great gallery for a junior college .

Four defensive starters are freshmen, two others are sophomores, and another is a first-year junior college transfer.

Cal has only one other kicker in junior college transfer Tim Wolleck, whom Brache beat out during fall camp.

Junior Dan Nash, a 6-0 junior college transfer from Pierce College, is the setter.

Since 1961, the new junior college had been making do with the evening hours at Chula Vista High School.

Two rows behind the bench sits a sweet-faced junior college girl who just announced her intention to play for Oregon next year.

A junior college recruit she had great hopes for is not coming along fast enough.

doctor

We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals.

But many junior doctors are unhappy about what they have seen of the new deal so far.

One was a junior doctor at a London hospital with pale skin and frizzy hair.

Medical students and junior doctors seek it.

Firstly, many junior doctors have little understanding of what medical research is all about.

Discuss with junior doctors how to allocate extra resources to reduce hours.

high

At first it feels like high school, then junior high, and finally grade school.

It stays together throughout the students' two junior high and four high school years at Thayer.

In junior high I worked on the school newspaper and made cartoons.

By junior high , she knew she wanted to play college ball.

At this point, going to junior high is expensive enough.

Before long, the junior highs were competing for students.

management

He wanted to be considered for junior management positions but his company was not sure of his ability to make this step.

As a result there was only a vestigial junior management system.

Everywhere negative feelings were expressed about supervisors and junior management as a role.

Crusaders fifth Dubliner John Cleary has gone into junior management down south.

member

Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff.

Teenagers were allowed in the project as junior members of the regular rural work force.

The paper had been running a series of articles on junior members of the Government and it was Berowne's turn.

He was determined to resurrect the Liberalism of Cambridge, and turn it into a force among junior members of the university.

It had to be known by employees to do their jobs and was widely known by relatively junior members of staff.

An all-out attack by a junior on a senior at a meeting is usually costly, especially if the junior member wins.

There have also been a few cases where junior members have successfully challenged senior colleagues in contests for sub committee chairmanships.

minister

Smith, admitting he had an unreported business relationship with the department store owner, resigned as junior minister for Northern Ireland.

Mrs Thatcher duly sacked the junior minister , space enthusiast Geoffrey Pattie.

He was a few weeks short of his fiftieth birthday, a somewhat elderly junior minister .

Trouble began when a mistaken claim by a junior Minister persuaded many people to stop buying eggs.

nurse

This secures extra teaching for the junior nurse , and the senior student will herself learn from this role.

The junior nurse should also be involved in teaching.

To a junior nurse it may appear that surgical nursing is negative in its aims.

During training the student will learn from many teachers, and the junior nurse can be confused by apparent differences and contradictions.

As a junior nurse it is important that you receive extra instruction and practice under supervision before caring for these patients.

A junior nurse would probably believe her.

A strike by junior nurses , soon after the election, had ended after the government promised to review their case.

officer

At least 20 of the rebel junior officers who staged the uprising surrendered by late afternoon.

Beginning with the junior officer present, all voted to surrender but two...

I served with Marks before the war and he showed great promise even as a junior officer .

He refused evacuation until he was certain his junior officer was in control of the situation.

Ron McGregor, a junior officer with me on Vincent was not a regular Commander of the new Vigilant.

Twice he had seriously wounded men in duels, and finally he had run another junior officer through in a tavern brawl.

In March 1988, a group of junior officers attempted a coup.

A junior officer was suspended from duty following the May 12 incidents.

official

There were more junior officials around them, and Pink was the centre of attention.

Senior officials have a duty to protect junior officials and to set standards for those lower down.

If this advice had come only from junior officials , he might have been able to over-rule it.

While there, they briefly met junior officials in the Bush campaign.

In some unions, officials may then exert position power and give instructions to members or junior officials.

partner

The plaintiff was the senior partner and the defendant the junior partner.

Through the oil cartels, the United States dealt some stinging slaps to its junior partners .

This was J.P. Morgan's forerunner and whose junior partner was Pierpont.

But to be an ally of the West is of course to be a junior partner .

The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner .

The resumption has shaken the Green party, the junior partner in Chancellor Gerhard Schro der's coalition.

school

Phil Fearon, the soul singer, went to junior school with me.

Abingdon junior school could now be on the road to a Wembley final in a national six-a-side competition.

Your child's pre-school days and infant and junior school years are vital in his future development.

Some junior school Heads think it is a waste of good scholarship studying time.

Shanti made many friends in junior school .

There were three or four cars lined up outside the junior school gates.

Think of life on earth as junior school and the spirit as the pupil.

I was in one home for three years when I was at junior school .

staff

To assist and encourage and supervise where appropriate junior staff in the proper performance of their duties.

The inexperience of the junior staff was not accidental.

In the meantime, if you want to ask questions, come to me, not to my junior staff .

More junior staff came, who were to be a great help to us.

Writing of definitions and selection of illustrative quotations by junior staff .

The art of palpating for a pyloric mass should be taught by experienced senior staff to junior staff and students.

I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same.

Some suppliers' representatives are highly adept at pressurising junior staff into placing orders.

team

Many ex-international union players are still turning out every Saturday for junior teams .

Wilkinson was switched when a player in a Grimsby junior team was injured.

varsity

We had cheerleaders for varsity football and boys basketball and even junior varsity cheerleaders for both teams.

The student was beaten outside the cafeteria while using the phone after a junior varsity football practice.

At the time, Iacenda was 14 years old and in the ninth grade, playing on the junior varsity team.

Mary's he played junior varsity lacrosse.

year

He did better junior year , despite the fact that he spent nearly all of it arguing with the priests.

I look older than I am, at the butt end of my junior year of high school.

When he took the SATs in his junior year , he scored an even 1600.

His junior year at Boulder High I went to all his home soccer games.

He showed dramatic improvement from his junior year to his senior year.

During the second semester of her junior year , Maggie had what was to prove to be a very positive experience.

Students in the program participate in three progressive summer internships, starting after their junior year in high school.

My junior year , I was one step higher.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a junior partner

She started work as a junior reporter on a local newspaper.

The most junior officers wore a red stripe on their sleeves.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At first it feels like high school, then junior high, and finally grade school.

At least 20 of the rebel junior officers who staged the uprising surrendered by late afternoon.

By 1990, District 4 boasted 21 junior high schools, plus six alternative grade schools.

He started to learn the bagpipes at the age of nine and won several junior prizes.

He was also second in the Yorkshire Championships at Harrogate and is currently junior champion of Yorkshire.

In junior high, she refined them, sent them off to contests, then scribbled more.

In my junior year a friend, a fledgling pilot, taught me the basics of handling a small plane.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

school

I signed up for Naval service when I was a high school junior in 1974 and was put on delayed enlistment.

Many states already have options that allow high school juniors and seniors to take courses at public colleges and universities for credit.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a junior at NYU

Donna spent spring semester of her junior year in Paris.

He was replaced by a young graduate, 10 years his junior .

Sarah is six years my junior .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Even if it s one of the juniors pissing around on their computer and modem.

I find it tough to delegate my work to juniors, to the associates.

Joann was a junior and had a beautiful singing voice.

More than 30 players, including juniors and novices will be competing.

Otton, the junior who shared time with Kyle Wachholtz at quarterback, started and did not relinquish the position.

The good behaviour of our own Club members are still attending with some of the older juniors replacing retiring senior members.

The other reason she had disappeared with the juniors was that it kept her out of Jack's way.

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