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higher in rank than others — especially by reason of longer service- She has seniority, so she's unlikely to be affected by the layoffs.
- He wait until I confront them on it ... then he wanna come crying seniority.August Wilson -- Fences
- Then this panel agrees who those men will be, based on seniority and union rules.Homer Hickam -- October Sky
- "Then I have seniority," he told me, "for I am Oberon's prisoner."Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
- I'd like to keep men here sometimes instead of sending them back, but she has seniority.Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- I have shown that in democratic armies, and in time of peace, the rule of seniority is the supreme and inflexible law of advancement.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- His age gives him seniority, and his manipulations gain him either fear or respect from a surprising number of others.Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
- I know you asked for it off, but Midge has seniority.Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
- "Well, just so there're no problems, I've got seniority on you, so I get the bathroom first, deal?"Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
- Mortati had waited patiently at the main altar as each cardinal, in order of seniority, had approached and performed the specific balloting procedure.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- Bunking will be arranged by seniority.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- All evolutionary disadvantages, I know, but it's a law at the Workshop that only nonengineered humans can attain certain levels of seniority.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- Rufus Hastings has challenged Bartholomew Velasquez for the seniority and leadership of the New York pack.Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
- He took the first of the empty stools and the eight other egwugwu began to sit in order of seniority after him.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- Surely, any doctor or nurse on the hospital's seniority list had gotten off for the night.Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
- Poor tyrannical Rachel keeps trying to build a big-sister career upon a slim sixteen-month seniority, insisting that we respect her as our elder.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- We lined up in order of seniority, so of course I was dead last.Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
- Because of her seniority it was always my turn when it was slow, so I got up and went over to see what they needed.Sarah Dessen -- That Summer
- For another thing, there was the simple matter of what I construed to be Nathan's overwhelming seniority.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Sensitive to Adams's seniority and his importance in Congress—and possibly to Adams's vanity— Jefferson was consistently deferential to him.David McCullough -- John Adams
seniority = higher in rank than others — especially by reason of longer service