juniornoun
uk/ˈdʒuː.ni.ər/us/ˈdʒuː.njɚ/junior noun (LOW RANK)
[ C ] someone who has a job at a low level within an organization:
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Workers in general
- a man of action idiom
- beaver
- drudge
- gang
- graft
- jack-of-all-trades
- manpower
- night shift
- peon
- personnel
- plod
- relay
- staff
- staffing
- team player
- temp
- the shop floor
- workhorse
- working group
- working party
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junior noun (STUDENT)
[ C ] UK a student at a junior school
→ junior school :
[ C ] US a student in the third year of a course that lasts for four years at a school or college
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Students & pupils
- -grader
- alumna
- alumnus
- attrition
- batchmate
- boarder
- entrant
- frosh
- graduate
- houseman
- infant
- internship
- learner
- pupil
- schoolchild
- schoolgirl
- schoolmate
- sixth-former
- sophomore
- theologian
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junior noun (YOUNGER)
[ C ] a young person below a particular age who is involved in an activity, especially sport:
C2 three, eight, etc. years younger than someone:
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Competitors & participants in sports & games
- back four
- benchwarmer
- boot boy
- center forward
- center half
- defence
- eleven
- fielder
- finisher
- gymnast
- outfield player
- outside forward
- phoenix club
- playmaker
- poacher
- runner
- scratch
- sprint
- underdog
- winger
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junior noun (SON)
[ S ] mainly US used to refer to your son:
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Family: relations in general
- aunt
- auntie
- baby daddy
- be sb's own flesh and blood idiom
- birth mother
- fatherhood
- filial
- first cousin
- fraternal
- fraternal twin
- long-lost
- loved one
- maiden aunt
- maternal
- matriarch
- sisterhood
- son
- uncle
- working mother/father/parent
- your nearest and dearest idiom
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junioradjective
uk/ˈdʒuː.ni.ər/us/ˈdʒuː.njɚ/junior adjective (LOW RANK)
B2 low or lower in rank:
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- Sidney ruthlessly clawed his way (up) from the position of junior clerk to chairman of the company .
- Discontent among junior ranks was rapidly spreading.
- After giving birth, she was stitched up by a junior doctor.
- It's not unusual for a junior doctor to work a 70 or sometimes an 80-hour week.
- The matter is being dealt with by a junior member of staff.
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Organizations - position & status
- a rung on/of the ladder idiom
- apparatchik
- associate
- back seat
- be a big fish in a small pond idiom
- betters 2
- brethren
- comrade
- echelon
- entry-level
- equal
- fellow
- founder
- low-level
- position
- role
- second class
- senior
- standing
- subordinate
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junior adjective (YOUNGER)
B2 connected with or involving young people below a particular age:
UK written abbreviation Jnr, US written abbreviation Jr. used after a man's name to refer to the younger of two men in the same family who have the same name:
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Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- laddish
- mall rat
- minor
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teens
- tween
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- youthful
- yute
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