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junior partnernoun1A member of a group who has less power or influence than other members: the Greens are the junior partner in the ruling coalition...- He should know better that our country will never agree to become anyone's poodle or junior partner.
- As the junior partner in the Coalition, the party is more comfortable with not always getting its own way.
- The United Kingdom is the junior partner in terms of scale, but sometimes leads in specialized areas.
1.1A junior member of a business partnership: she became a junior partner in a Glasgow general practice...- Having kept the firm running smoothly for 13 years, she deserves to be made a junior partner on those merits.
- She was a junior partner at one of Silicon Valley's most powerful venture capital firms.
- In a sign of the competitiveness of the industry, he said of the 24 junior partners the firm has taken on during his tenure, only five were promoted.
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