(a.) More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
(a.) Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
(n.) A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
(n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
(n.) An aged person; an older.
(n.) One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(2) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(3) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(4) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
(5) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(6) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
(7) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(8) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
(9) They are saying they have paid with their blood and they do not want to retreat," said Saad el-Hosseini, a senior Brotherhood politician.
(10) "We won't cancel any of our agreements," a senior Israeli diplomatic official told reporters.
(11) A senior shadow minister, who has not been named by the Telegraph in its exposé of MPs' expenses , was yesterday asked by county councillors not to campaign for next month's local elections.
(12) Sir James Crosby, the ITV senior independent non-executive director, explained why the board had opted to retain Grade's services for an extra year: "It was the unanimous view of ITV's independent non-executive directors that it would be in the best interests of the company and its shareholders to ask Michael to extend his time as executive chairman.
(13) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
(14) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(15) Sajeda Amin is a senior associate at the Population Council .
(16) Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit, said: "Construction is no longer the weakest link in the UK economy.
(17) One hundred cases of histologically proven corneal and conjunctival tumours were extracted from the records at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and from the senior author's private practice in the last ten years.
(18) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(19) Senior sources said on Monday that the vacancies had left it in effect rudderless, and unable to introduce any significant reforms.
(20) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
Young
Definition:
(superl.) Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
(superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
(superl.) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
(n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(2) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(4) On the other hand, the majority of gynecologic patients with pelvic infections are young and healthy.
(5) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(6) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.
(7) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
(8) Furthermore, the analyses indicated an important interplay between environmental sources and social factors in the determination of hand lead and blood lead levels in very young children.
(9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(10) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
(11) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(12) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(13) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
(14) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
(15) The mean value of peak Vcf showed no significant difference among young and elderly groups except for the group in the 30's which showed significant (p less than 0.05) difference between other groups.
(16) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
(17) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
(18) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(19) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
(20) The effect of dietary fluoride (F) on nephrocalcinosis was studied in young, female rats.